Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:36559] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4801][Open] Shorthand Hash Syntax for Strings" on Mon, 30 May 2011 09:44:35 +0900, Tom Wardrop <tom / tomwardrop.com> writes: |Assuming there's no technical limitation or ambiguities, I suggest that the shorthand syntax for symbol's in the context of an array, be applied to strings also. | |E.g. {'key': 'value'} Iff {'key': 'value'} means {:key => 'value'} I have no objection. matz.