From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...>
Date: 2004-04-27T16:58:45+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: key:val hashes (was Re: Approaches to localization?)

At 16:41 27/04/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>>However, try this:
>>   p {a:"1"}
>>It apparently does nothing, weird ?
>well, it will do nothing anyway, since it thinks you are trying to pass a 
>block to Kernel#p...

Thanks. It apparently is equivalent to p { a( :"1") }.
I got confused because I was not aware of the :"some string" syntax to 
create a Symbol !

>mark@imac% ruby -v -e'p({a:1,b:2})'
>ruby 1.9.0 (2004-04-11) [powerpc-darwin]
>{:b=>2, :a=>1}
>I'm not sure when this was implemented; in fact, I didn't know it was 
>there already until now :) very nice, thanks matz!

I agree that it is somehow difficult to track news. Apparently 1.9 will 
implement
the 2.0 syntax before work actually starts on the VM for 2.0.
See http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite

Jean-Hugues