jashkenas/coffee-script — pull request #2935 by printercu (2013-04-18 23:15:51+00:00)
Title: sumbols-like strings

Hi there! I've seen issues about symbol-like strings. But still haven't understood why don't you like this. Sure, it's not good idea to replace symbols with numbers, but i think it's good enough as shortcut in some cases. Like this
```coffee
$.ajax
type: :json
data:
val: :smth
other_val: :smth_else
#instead of
$.ajax
type: 'json'
data:
val: 'smth'
other_val: 'smth_else'
```
I've implemented this feature, it has taken just few lines and hasn't broken anything :)

Hope you'll like it!