Re[2]: Proposing new warning

I prefer the monkey patch to Hash in this case. String/Symbol keys on 
hashes is one of the only thinks I don't like about Ruby. So I "divide" 
my hashes by key with the "/" function:

Add this:

class Hash
   def /(k)
     self[k.to_sym] || self[k.to_s]
   end
end

Then you can do this:

h1 = {a: 1, b: 2}
h2 = {"c" => 1, "d" => 2}

The following returns 1:

h1/:a # 1
h2/:c # 1

x = 'a'
h1/x # 1

One issue is if you append another function you have to use parenthesis:

h = {now: Time.now}
h/:now.strftime('%Y%m%d')  #<= ERROR
(h/:now).strftime('%Y%m%d')  # "20181023"

This is my solution but it is considered hackery by many. The thing I 
like about it is that it is easy and I know that I am getting values by 
symbol or key and you can still do stuff like:

h = {a: 1, "a" => 2} and access the values as you normally would with 
h[:a] or h["a"]


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