From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T21:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: %w for symbols

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 20:21:25 +0900, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > It seems common enough that it might be nice to have this. Perhaps
> > %W{} instead of %w{} ?
> %W{} is already taken:
> 
> irb(main):006:0> %W{1 #{1+1} 3}
> => ["1", "2", "3"]
> irb(main):007:0> %w{1 #{1+1} 3}
> => ["1", "#{1+1}", "3"]
> 
> And I think that [:foo, :bar, :qux] is already short enough.

Ah, but (to use Gavin's suggested form):

%s(1 2 3) is shorter than [:"1", :"2", :"3"] for any given version.

I don't know how often I'd use this -- I rarely even use %w{} (and
didn't even know about %W{}), except in unit tests. It seems like a
good idea, though.

-austin
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