Hash: JavaScript-like colon notation allowed for Symbol keys, even when other key in the same Hash aren't Symbols

[das-g]

On http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.2/Hash.html#method-i-store, the notation { my_key: 5 } (available since Ruby 1.9) is introduced with

Hashes allow an alternate syntax form when your keys are always symbols.

(Emphasis mine.)

This suggests that this syntax will only be allowed for literals of Hashes where all keys are are Symbols. However, experiments show it works fine for Hashes of mixed key types:

{"a string" => 1, a_symbol: 2, Math::PI => 3 }

(Of course, the colon syntax can only be used for those keys that are Symbols.)

[das-g]

I suggest to change that to

Hashes allow an alternate syntax form for keys that are symbols:

[zzak]

@das-g Thank you for your patch!

This was committed in r51506.