From: Tim Hunter <sastph@...>
Date: 2005-08-31T21:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby documentation typo

Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> 
> 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.

The character following %w can be any "non-alphabetic or non-multibyte 
character." (I'm quoting from pp. 303-304 in the 2nd Ed.) %w always 
creates an array of strings, regardless of what delimiter character you use.