# Hash delimiter =\>
**URL:** https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906 "2025-03-28T17:27:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@3xtraterrestrial](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/3xtraterrestrial)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906/1 "2025-03-28T17:27:41Z")
I feel like using “=\>” as delimiter to associate the k/v can be confusing for new programmers coming over to enjoy the Crystal language.
What are thoughts on changing it OR being able to utilize something like “\>\>\>” OR “\<\<\>\>” ?
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### Author:  [@Blacksmoke16](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/Blacksmoke16)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906/2 "2025-03-28T17:34:27Z")
I don’t think there have been any discussions around changing this, or allowing other values. `=>` is used in a few other languages too so I can’t really imagine this being worth it.
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### Author:  [@3xtraterrestrial](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/3xtraterrestrial)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906/3 "2025-03-28T18:02:52Z")
Fair enough. Another question I have around hashes, is how come say when I want to “p!” something out for a hash.
p! {“Key” =\> “value”}
This will not work as I expect, will throw a error. Unless I assign it to a variable ,
But for the same thing, using arrays, this would be fine.
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### Author:  [@nobodywasishere](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/nobodywasishere)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906/4 "2025-03-28T18:07:49Z")
That’s because `{}` in this context is used to signify a block
```crystal
def foo(&)
yield
end
foo { "bar" } # => "bar"
```
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### Author:  [@yxhuvud](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/yxhuvud)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/hash-delimiter/7906/5 "2025-03-28T21:36:02Z")
In addition to what has been said, `p!({"key" => "value"})` is a way to work around that.