From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T04:26:32+09:00
Subject: Re: %w(foo) v.s. ['foo']

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gennady" <gfb@tonesoft.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: %w(foo) v.s. ['foo']


> By the way, I just verified in IRB that %(year month day) is actually
"year
> month day". It is quite surprising to me.

A pleasant surprise, right?

This is Ruby's generalized string. You
can say things like:

  %(He said, "She told me, 'Hello.'")

instead of escaping the usual quote characters.
In fact, the parens are not even required.
And I think if you use a non-doubled character
like -, you can open and close with the same
character:

  %-He said, "She told me, 'Hello.'"-

I'm saying this from memory. I'll
be embarrassed if I am wrong.  :)

Hal