Hmm. It's hard for me to say whether I am in favour of this suggestion or whether I am not. I think this link may help a bit in regards to JavaScript, even though JavaScript is not Ruby; neither is the syntax: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Object_initializer Old JavaScript variant: var o = {}; var o = {a: 'foo', b: 42, c: {}}; versus New JavaScript var