From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T21:15:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby documentation typo

Hi --

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it
> would be OK to mention it here.
>
> The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page:
>
> ---
> Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the
> quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what
> we want.
>
> a = %w{ ant bee cat dog elk }
> ---
>
> I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog
> talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes.

Actually %w can take just about any delimiter:

   %w-a b c-
   %w!a b c!

etc.  So you can definitely use {}.


David

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