From: Saji Hameed <saji@...>
Date: 2012-02-13T20:19:51+09:00
Subject: Re: the ruby syntax

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:49 PM, maven apache <apachemaven0@gmail.com> wrote:

> But in the ruby document:http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
>
> Definiation of a hash should  like this:
>
> {'key'=>'value'.....}
>
> Now in the IO.new exmaple,it is written as {key:value}.  Is the ':' symbol
> same as '=>'?? I do not find it is methioned in any document.
>

Unfortunately, even the latest rubydoc
http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Hash.html somehow does not mention this
new syntax.

saji

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