From: "Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak)" Date: 2013-09-23T17:38:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:57317] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8939] symbol / string invariance (for hashes) Issue #8939 has been updated by Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak). no it should not because Symbol and String are two different Classes, if you want that are the same use ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess ---------------------------------------- Feature #8939: symbol / string invariance (for hashes) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8939#change-41926 Author: Sing9898 (Sing Lou) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: hash={key:"value"} hash["key"] should return "value" hash={"key"=>"value"} hash[:key] should return "value" -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/