Re: Proposing new warning

You can use an official bug/proposal tracker: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/
(it is open for anybody).

About your proposal: I like the friendliness, but I am afraid there would
be performance implications, probably.

вт, 23 окт. 2018 г. в 15:47, Miguel A Salinas II <[email protected]>:

> Hi all,
> I’m wondering where to pitch an idea and implementation of a new warning.
> I found that new ruby programmers get confused between strings and symbols
> especially when using them as keys in hashes. I made a small change that
> warns when there is a value in the hash with a symbol as its key but you
> are trying to access it with the equivalent string. E.g.
> hash = {this: “that”}
> puts hash[“this”]
>
> Warning: no value stored for key “this”. Value found for equivalent symbol
> key :this. Did you mean to use a symbol?
>
> Any pointers for how to propose this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> - miguel
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