From: "mame (Yusuke Endoh)" <mame@...>
Date: 2012-03-30T01:53:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:43890] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6096][Rejected] Parser tweak - curly braces followed by a coma...


Issue #6096 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

I agree with Tom.
Considering Tom's code, it is apparently difficult to fix this issue.

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Feature #6096: Parser tweak - curly braces followed by a coma...
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6096#change-25398

Author: ddebernardy (Denis de Bernardy)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 


It would be sweet if ruby treated curly braces followed by a coma as a hash rather than as a coma:

>> def foo(bar, baz)
>> end
=> nil
>> foo {}, :baz
SyntaxError: (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting $end
foo {}, :baz
       ^
	from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

I keep forgetting and run into the issue on a regular basis when writing unit tests... aka:

assert_equal {}, do_stuff


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