Is it possible that I could do the following, if so what is the
correct syntax?
aHash = Hash.new
aString = "BasketballTeam"
aHash[aString] => "Bulls"
Drop the greater than symbol in the last line:
aHash[aString] = "Bulls"
And sense we are talking, allow me to explain the variable naming
conventions for Ruby.
We prefer to use snake_case for variable
and method names and save the CamelCase for class and module names.
Doing that, I would rewrite your code as:
a_hash = Hash.new
a_string = "BasketballTeam"
a_hash[a_string] = "Bulls"
Of course, "a_hash" and "a_string" don't really tell us much, so
let's go a step further and try to pick variable names that inform us
of what we are working with:
teams = Hash.new
team_type = "BasketballTeam"
teams[team_type] = "Bulls"
I think that reads a lot better, but you be the judge.
Hope that helps.
James Edward Gray II
