From: "Marvin Gülker" Date: 2010-07-07T19:42:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Hashes don't allow preceding commas by design? Iain Barnett wrote: > myhash3 = { > :first => "first" > , :second => "second" > } It is possible if you force the Ruby Interpreter to look at that line to be incomplete: myhash3 = { :first => "first" \ , :second => "second" } But I don't necessarily like this, since the backslash looks so misplaced in a nice language like Ruby... Marvin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.