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Feature #9686

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Syntax for symbols used in hashes

Added by saschamayr (Sascha Mayr) about 10 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:61743]

Description

Symbols are often used literally as keys in hashes like this:

{foo: 'bar'}

But acutally there is a little inconvenience when using the alternative :"name" literal syntax:

string = 'foo'
{:"#{string}" => 'bar'}

It would be great if Ruby provided the possibility to write the second example like this:

string = 'foo'
{"#{string}": 'bar'}

This would be logical, because you can write both syntaxes the same way when not using them in hashes.

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 10 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

You can write simply for that case:

string = 'foo'
{string => 'bar'}

Updated by phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin) about 10 years ago

On Mar 29, 2014 8:52 AM, wrote:

You can write simply for that case:

string = 'foo'
{string => 'bar'}

You'd need

{string.to_s => 'bar'}

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 10 years ago

Sorry, string.to_sym.

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