From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-19T17:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: literal syntax for array of arrays of strings

Pe�a wrote:
> # t = table %q{\
> 
>                ^^^^
> what is w the backquote?

To avoid an empty array, but I messed that up :(

This is what I had originally (but I inserted the 'q' to make it a 
single-quoted string, like the first example):

tb = table %{\
  a b c
  d e f
}

p tb

> i prefer instead the here-doc
> 
>> table <<HERE
> a b c
> d e f
> HERE
> #=> [["a", "b", "c"], ["d", "e", "f"]]

Nice!

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