From: Craig Demyanovich <cdemyanovich@...>
Date: 2008-10-16T23:52:51+09:00
Subject: Re: what is [] here

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[] is a way to declare an empty array. It's a nice alternative to Array.new.

puts [].methods.size

will print the number of methods on a new, empty Array instance. On my Ruby
install (1.8.6 p114 on Mac OS X 10.5.5), the output is 121.

Craig

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