[ruby-core:78713] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13045] Passing a Hash with String keys as keyword arguments

This is a problem that bothers me a lot.
The amount of time I lose thinking about symbol vs string in a hash
justifies my reply to this thread.
I don't know what are the implications but the in an ideal world string and
symbol should represent the same key. That would make my life so much
better when designing a ruby interface.

On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 at 15:45, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Issue #13045 has been updated by Robert A. Heiler.
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> I would agree with a **way/method to convert string-keys into
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> I have no idea if this should be Hash#symbolize_keys or another name -
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> #transform_keys and allow either to_string or to_symbol conversion - but I
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> agree with a convenience method that could turn keys into one or the other.
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> Perhaps this would also reduce the need for strange things such as
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> HashWithIndifferentAccess. Newcomers will always wonder whether they should
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> use strings or symbols (or even worse, both at the same time in the same
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> Feature #13045: Passing a Hash with String keys as keyword arguments
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> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13045#change-62084
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> * Author: Anatoly Chernow
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> * Status: Open
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> * Priority: Normal
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> To the following method
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> ~~~ ruby
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> def new request:, response:
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> end
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> I'd like to be able to pass both
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> ~~~ ruby
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> hash_with_symbol_keys = { request: another_hash, response: another_hash2 }
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> hash_with_string_keys = { 'request' => another_hash, 'response' =>
> another_hash2 }
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> ~~~
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> I would make a lot cleaner parsing many things returned with string
> keys(like the output of `YAML.load`).
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> 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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