Hash Syntax Confusion (optional)

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We’ve found it’s important for us to explain the following somewhere in our course, because many online resources use another, alternative syntax for defining Hashes.

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The term syntax, in programming, refers to ways to use punctuation in order to (amongst other things) create objects.

E.g. the fact that we can use square brackets [] and commas , in order to define Arrays, and curly braces {} and hash rockets => in order to define Hashes, is part of Ruby’s ...