I did recommend to the Io author that he create a Hash literal syntax because I like the fact that Ruby has one ;-) To be clear, I think that it is great that

I did recommend to the Io author that he create a Hash literal syntax because I like the fact that Ruby has one ;-) To be clear, I think that it is great that you created this book. I just responded as I did because I'm often frustrated when I use Ruby APIs that sacrifice good design (imo) for syntactic terseness.