What is this ‘=>’ operator called?
Does it have a name?
On May 9, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Matthew C. wrote:
What is this ‘=>’ operator called?
Does it have a name?
From my Perl days, I learned to pronounce this “is” although I don’t
know if it has a true name.
(Try it next time you’re reading code with a hash.)
-Rob
Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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I believe it’s called a “hashrocket.” At least that’s what the guys
and gals at http://www.hashrocket.com/ would have me believe.
–Jeremy
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Matthew C.
[email protected] wrote:
What is this ‘=>’ operator called?
Does it have a name?
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Read my books:
Ruby in Practice (Ruby in Practice)
My free Ruby e-book (http://humblelittlerubybook.com/)
Or, my blogs:
I read it as “points to”
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Thanks everyone. I think I am going to go with hashrocket… 
I just
like that…
On May 10, 8:11 pm, “Ryan B. (Radar)” [email protected]
Matthew C. wrote:
What is this ‘=>’ operator called?
Does it have a name?
I always read it as “goes to”,
but in the Rubinius core, they define the following stuff…
rubinius/lib/ruby-token.rb:197
[:TkLSHFT, TkOp, "<<"],
[:TkRSHFT, TkOp, ">>"],
[:TkCOLON2, TkOp],
[:TkCOLON3, TkOp],
[:OPASGN, TkOp], # +=, -= etc.
[:TkASSOC, TkOp, "=>"],
[:TkQUESTION, TkOp, "?"], #?
[:TkCOLON, TkOp, ":"], #:
ie. TkASSOC
On 5/12/08, Matthew C. [email protected] wrote:
Thanks everyone. I think I am going to go with hashrocket…
like that…
One of my Ruby books describes it as “the sequence of characters” in
the context of a Hash explanation.
shrug
–
Greg D.
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