From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T04:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple question regarding hashes

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:54:42AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> 
> For the newbies, note that %w{a b c} is an array literal equivalent to
> ["a", "b", "c"] but more sparing on the fingers pushing the keys.

Something I've been wondering for a while, now . . .

Is there any particular reason that the traditional approach seems to be
to use %w{a b c} rather than %w[a b c] (the latter of which seems even
more sparing of the fingers)?

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