From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T01:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Delimiters for %w and the like (Was: Retired Ruby Mascott?)

On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

> Anyway, while it is possible to use any nonalphabetic or non-multibyte
> character as delimiter including '[' I think that one should not use
> square brackets with %w unless there is a convincingly good reason for
> this because the resulting syntax strongly ressembles literal arrays.

I would argue that *is* the reason to use brackets.  It's just a  
"word array" after all...

James Edward Gray II