Does sort of make a hash in Ruby more confusing to the untrained eye (unless the hash rocket is totally dead, I haven't written Ruby since like the 2.3 days):

Does sort of make a hash in Ruby more confusing to the untrained eye (unless the hash rocket is totally dead, I haven't written Ruby since like the 2.3 days): { "age" => age, "name" => name } I like the idea a lot. It'd probably allow for some nice functional looking code, but that's also the problem... it'd only look functional. And I think without VM/compiler/runtime support of functional programming it's pretty much a big waste of time. I can use piece shit for a shoehorn; doesn't mean I should.