Issue #9047 has been updated by jamonholmgren (Jamon Holmgren). @matz -- sorry, I didn't receive an email notification, so I didn't realize you had responded. This isn't MRI, I realize, but in RubyMotion this notation would come in handy. https://github.com/clearsightstudio/ProMotion/issues/345#issuecomment-29115788 add UIButton.new, { "setTitle:forState:" => ['Register', UIControlStateNormal], "addTarget:action:forControlEvents" => [self, 'register', UIControlEventTouchUpInside] } # becomes: add UIButton.new, { "setTitle:forState:": ['Register', UIControlStateNormal], "addTarget:action:forControlEvents" => [self, 'register', UIControlEventTouchUpInside] } Another situation is when you want to map strings: def map_string(source_string) { "jamon-holmgren": "Jamon A. Holmgren", "matzumoto-yukihiro": "Yukihiro Matsumoto" }[source_string] end Perhaps somewhat contrived, but you get the point. The first (RubyMotion) example I do deal with on a regular basis, being the creator of ProMotion. ---------------------------------------- Feature #9047: Alternate hash key syntax for symbols https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9047#change-43099 Author: jamonholmgren (Jamon Holmgren) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: Target version: next minor =begin In Ruby, if you can create a symbol with ((|:"symbolname"|)), it seems consistent to allow moving the colon to the right side in a hash and dropping the hash rocket (=>). { :str => "v", # symbol str: "v", # symbol :"str" => "v", # symbol "str": "v", # should also be a symbol } It would look like this: h = { "mykey": "value", "otherkey": "othervalue", regular_symbol: "value" } String and other non-symbol keys would retain the hash rocket syntax to avoid ambiguity. { "string" => "v", MyObj.new => "v", @my_var => "v" } Thoughts? =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/