From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T04:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: {} vs begin/end [was Re: object loops and what they return]

Ben Giddings wrote:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:38, David A. Black wrote:
> 
>>You'll have to fight it out with the ones who wanted braces for block
>>literals and hashes to be something else :-)
> 
> 
> I could accept that too -- I would just want one syntax for blocks, a 
> different one for braces, and no confusing middle ground.
> 
> I'd be happy with this for arrays too:
> 
> ["pet" => "dog", "name" => "fred", "drink" => "ale"]
> 
> or
> 
> ["pet": "dog", "name": "fred", "drink": "ale"]
> 
> I just think that {a => b} and {a <= b} are too similar.

But then there would be the similarity between

["a" => "b"]  # Hash

and

["a" <= "b"]  # Array

(or did I misunderstand?)