[ruby-core:62678] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9853] [Open] Please consider quoted generation of hash like in %h( foo bar bee blaa )

Issue #9853 has been reported by Robert A. Heiler.

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Feature #9853: Please consider quoted generation of hash like in %h( foo bar bee blaa ) 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9853

* Author: Robert A. Heiler
* Status: Open
* Priority: Low
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* Target version: 
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Hi.

In Ruby we can do this:

%w( foo bar bee blaa )  # => ["foo", "bar", "bee", "blaa"]

Ok makes an array of strings.

We can do this:

%i( foo bar bee blaa ) # => [:foo, :bar, :bee, :blaa]

Ok, makes an array of symbols.

We can also use [] on class Hash to generate a hash:

Hash[*%w( foo bar bee blaa )] # => {"foo"=>"bar", "bee"=>"blaa"}

My question:

Would it be possible to add %h() ? It would create a hash:

%h( foo bar bee blaa ) # => {"foo"=>"bar", "bee"=>"blaa"}

And would raise if odd number of arguments would be supplied.




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