[ruby-core:78710] [Ruby trunk Feature#13045] Passing a Hash with String keys as keyword arguments

Issue #13045 has been updated by Robert A. Heiler.


I would agree with a **way/method to convert string-keys into symbol-keys**.

I have no idea if this should be Hash#symbolize_keys or another name - perhaps
#transform_keys and allow either to_string or to_symbol conversion - but I
agree with a convenience method that could turn keys into one or the other.

Perhaps this would also reduce the need for strange things such as 
HashWithIndifferentAccess. Newcomers will always wonder whether they should
use strings or symbols (or even worse, both at the same time in the same
hash).

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Feature #13045: Passing a Hash with String keys as keyword arguments
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13045#change-62084

* Author: Anatoly Chernow
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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To the following method

~~~ ruby
def new request:, response:
end
~~~
I'd like to be able to pass both

~~~ ruby
hash_with_symbol_keys = { request: another_hash, response: another_hash2 }
hash_with_string_keys = { 'request' => another_hash, 'response' => another_hash2 }
~~~

I would make a lot cleaner parsing many things returned with string keys(like the output of `YAML.load`).

If you don't like the above feature, could you please at least consider adding `Hash#symbolize_keys`(like you did with `Hash#transform_values`)?



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