From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T07:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: {} vs begin/end [was Re: object loops and what they return]

On Thursday 12 May 2005 15:22, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> But then there would be the similarity between
> 
> ["a" => "b"]  # Hash
> 
> and
> 
> ["a" <= "b"]  # Array

How is that one an array?  Oh, is it an array containing 'true'?

I've never been super fond of '=>' as a syntax for creating hashes, but I 
can accept it.  The point I'm trying to make is that currently it's easy 
to visually confuse a block and a hash.  I'd prefer if array, block and 
hash were all visually distinct, but I think it's much less dangerous to 
have arrays and hashes look similar because they are similar creatures.

Ben