Feature #9853: Please consider quoted generation of hash like in %h( foo bar bee blaa )

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[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

Hi.

In Ruby we can do this:

%w( foo bar bee blaa ) # => ["foo", "bar", "bee", "blaa"]

Ok makes an array of strings.

We can do this:

%i( foo bar bee blaa ) # => [:foo, :bar, :bee, :blaa]

Ok, makes an array of symbols.

We can also use [] on class Hash to generate a hash:

Hash[*%w( foo bar bee blaa )] # => {"foo"=>"bar", "bee"=>"blaa"}

My question:

Would it be possible to add %h() ? It would create a hash:

%h( foo bar bee blaa ) # => {"foo"=>"bar", "bee"=>"blaa"}

And would raise if odd number of arguments would be supplied.