From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T04:35:12+09:00
Subject: Re: => A newb question

Dominic Son wrote:

> why did matz choose to use '=>' to declare things instead of just making
> them all '=' ?

= is assignment.

=> is shorthand for building a map. So :symbol => 'element' is shorthand for 
{}[:symbol] = 'element', or something hard like that. So Matz again saved us 
a lot of typing. (I think Perl has this feature too, but we will still 
credit Matz here!)

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