Re: Ruby documentation typo

Hi --

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

Hi all

I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it
would be OK to mention it here.

The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page:

---
Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the
quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what
we want.

a = %w{ ant bee cat dog elk }
---

I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog
talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes.


Actually %w can take just about any delimiter:

  %w-a b c-
  %w!a b c!

etc.  So you can definitely use {}.


David

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