Bug #4259: Symbol syntactic sugar in Hashes does not work with quotes

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]

[tbenst (Tyler Benster)]

=begin
To reproduce the problem, try the following in irb:

hash = {Alabama: "AL"}
=> {:Alabama=>"AL"}
puts hash[:"Alabama"]
AL
=> nil
hash2 = {"Rhode Island": "RI"}
SyntaxError: (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting tASSOC
hash2 = {"Rhode Island": "RI"}
^
(irb):3: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting $end
from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `'
hash2 = {:"Rhode Island" => "RI"}
=> {:"Rhode Island"=>"RI"}
=end

[sorah (Sorah Fukumori)]

=begin
I think this is spec...

--sora_h
=end

[sorah (Sorah Fukumori)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

=begin
Matz said this is true spec. Please write feature request if you want.

http://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/24669795119013888
In English,

This is not a bug. But I can understand if this is feature request.

Closing.

--sora_h
=end