From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2005-10-29T07:25:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Argument Passing Syntax


On Oct 28, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
> Hash::[] is the only reason [1 => 2] is allowed, see: ruby-talk:163033

I've looked through the parse.y file, so I understand the mechanical
reason why it doesn't work (it doesn't match the grammer) but I'm
not sure I've heard a design or philosophical reason why the grammar
is restrictive in this case.  I haven't looked at it enough to
decide if extending the 'aref_args' construct would introduce
some ambiguity.  It may be that it conflicts with the parsing of
literal arrays.



Gary Wright