From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-05-02T04:10:45+09:00
Subject: RE: Auto-quoting simple hash keys?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wconrad@yagni.com [mailto:wconrad@yagni.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:07 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Auto-quoting simple hash keys?
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:35:06AM +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> > What would people think of auto-quoting simple hash keys in 
> Ruby (ala Perl)?
> > 
> > i.e. hash[key] would be equivalent to hash['key']
> 
> No, I would be surprised too often.
> 
> When I find myself indexing a hash by only constant strings, it might
> mean that I actually need a class instead of a hash.  The wonderful
> Struct class makes it very easy to make a data-holder class to use
> instead of a hash.  Then I can say foo.key instead of foo['key'] (or
> the proposed foo[key]).  It looks even better without the brackets.
> 
>         Wayne Conrad
>

Hmm...I'm getting the feeling most people agree with you.  Ah, well.  I can
live with it (and maybe it's for the best anyway). :)

Dan