From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T01:21:46+09:00
Subject: Re: %w(foo) v.s. ['foo']

 - year, month, day = %w(year month day).map{|k| cgi[k]}
 + year, month, day = %w{year month day}.map{|k| cgi[k]}


On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:06:54AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> 
> 
> rubyists-
> 
> any idea why this:
> 
>   year, month, day = ['year','month','day'].map{|k| cgi[k]}
> 
> should yeild different results than this:
> 
>   year, month, day = %w(year month day).map{|k| cgi[k]}
> 
> 
> this first case, with identical form data, results in expected behavior, the
> second results in all values being nil.
> 
> -a
> 
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