Allow ** syntax to be used for calling methods that do not accept keywords

Treat the ** syntax as passing a copy of the hash as the last
positional argument.  If the hash being double splatted is empty, do
not add a positional argument.

Remove rb_no_keyword_hash, no longer needed.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/hash.c b/hash.c
index 0f1c460c49..b61784af3a 100644
--- a/hash.c
+++ b/hash.c
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
 # endif
 #endif
 
-VALUE rb_no_keyword_hash;
-
 #ifndef HASH_DEBUG
 #define HASH_DEBUG 0
 #endif
@@ -3276,8 +3274,6 @@ inspect_hash(VALUE hash, VALUE dummy, int recur)
 static VALUE
 rb_hash_inspect(VALUE hash)
 {
-    if (hash == rb_no_keyword_hash)
-	return rb_usascii_str_new2("{(NO KEYWORD)}");
     if (RHASH_EMPTY_P(hash))
 	return rb_usascii_str_new2("{}");
     return rb_exec_recursive(inspect_hash, hash, 0);
@@ -6277,10 +6273,6 @@ Init_Hash(void)
      */
     rb_define_global_const("ENV", envtbl);
 
-    rb_no_keyword_hash = rb_hash_new();
-    rb_hash_freeze(rb_no_keyword_hash);
-    rb_gc_register_mark_object(rb_no_keyword_hash);
-
     /* for callcc */
     ruby_register_rollback_func_for_ensure(hash_foreach_ensure, hash_foreach_ensure_rollback);