Issue #9047 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Status changed from Open to Closed Applied in changeset r47649. ---------- parse.y: quoted ID key * parse.y (assoc): allow quoted ID as a key of a hash literal. [ruby-core:34453] [Feature #4276] ---------------------------------------- Feature #9047: Alternate hash key syntax for symbols https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9047#change-48990 * Author: Jamon Holmgren * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: 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 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/