From: Caio Chassot <k@...2studio.com>
Date: 2004-08-06T17:20:46+09:00
Subject: Re: %w for symbols

Martin DeMello wrote:
>>>%w(a b c).map{|i|i.to_sym}   #=> [:a, :b, :c]
>>>
>>>If that isn't short enough.. then you may want to do
>>
>>I guess that pretty much misses the point, otherwise I could just go 
>>ahead and write [:a, :b, :c]
> 
> 
> are you trying to avoid creating the intermediate strings?

Ideally, yes. But I'm just looking for convinience.