From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-11-18T22:32:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Again, Rite explanation needed (keyword args and new hash syntax)

il Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:14:50 +0900, "T. Onoma" <transami@runbox.com>
ha scritto::





>> Nobody expects a string literal or a regexp literal to work like the
>> rest of the code.
>
>in what way?

well, if you write
 a=10
 b='a'

you expect b to be 97.chr.

If you write b=/a/ you know it is someway translated in a pattern.
But if you write
b=[a]
or b={a=>4}

you expect 'ciao' in the Array or Hash. For sure this is not wrong..
just interesting :)