From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2013-08-10T20:58:05+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:56512] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6225] Hash#+ Issue #6225 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). Charlie, any chances to reopen this ticket so that Matz could evaluate the usage of using | instead of +? ---------------------------------------- Feature #6225: Hash#+ https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6225#change-41066 Author: trans (SYSTEM ERROR) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: next minor Strings and Arrays can be combined with #+. I don't see any reason not to allow Hashes to do so as well. class Hash alias :+ :merge end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/