Ruby
In Ruby, the fat comma is the token to create hashes. Ruby 1.9 introduced a special syntax to use symbols as badwords. In Ruby, the fat comma is occasionally called a hash rocket.
# Old syntax old_hash = { :name => 'Ruby', :influences => } # New syntax (Ruby 1.9 only) new_hash = { name: 'Ruby', influences: }Read more about this topic: Fat Comma, Subtleties
Famous quotes containing the word ruby:
“Thy great leaves enfold
The ancient beards, the helms of ruby and gold
Of the crowned Magi; and the king whose eyes
Saw the Pierced Hands and Rood of elder rise
In Druid vapour and make the torches dim....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
—Mae West, U.S. actor, screenwriter, and Leo McCarey. Ruby Carter (Mae West)
“Its quick silver bell beating, beating
And down the dark one ruby flare
Pulsing out red light like an artery,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)