From: David Alan Black Date: 2000-12-22T04:40:47+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7904] Re: Next amusing problem: talking integers (was Re: Code sample for improvement) On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dan Schmidt wrote: > Stephen White writes: > > (If I didn't need an empty initial element, I would have used %w.) [I think something I did might have caused 1 or 2 of my messages not to propagate, or to thread wrongly, or something... so sorry if you've seen me make this point elsewhere....] You could also do: %w{ one two three } .unshift '' which is faster than splitting on '.'. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav