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		jhrobert on Dec 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I don’t like the Ruby 1.9 hash syntax name: value instead of :name => value makes as much sense as p->q instead of (*p).x in C As an historical note, here are the message (and matz’s response) where I made a proposal for the new syntax, back in 2002. It includes rationals. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/... Matz’s response : http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

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