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Feature #9686

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 10 years ago

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

 ~~~ruby 
 {foo: 'bar'} 
 ~~~ `{foo: 'bar'}` 

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

 ~~~ruby 
 string `string = 'foo' 
 {:"#{string}" => 'bar'} 
 ~~~ 'bar'}` 

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

 ~~~ruby 
 string `string = 'foo' 
 {"#{string}": 'bar'} 
 ~~~ 'bar'}` 

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

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