From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T08:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham recommends Ruby

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:33:18 +0900, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
> * Daniel Amelang (Mar 21, 2005 00:30):
> > Alternatively, you could make [:] the empty hash constructor. Quite a
> > shortcut for an associative array, if I do say so myself :)
> 
> Heh, that was a quite nice solution actually,
>         nikolai

As symbols are often used as keys, how about describing a hash as a
'symbolised array', like so:

:[:key => 'value', :foo => 'bar']

or an empty one:
:[]

Douglas