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I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink (lemmy.ml)

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[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does Ruby require the use of [] and {} there? Because those %w/%i/etc things look like custom quoting operators and at least in Perl you can use any delimiter you want: qw(a b c) is a list of strings, but so are qw+a b c+ and qw;a b c;.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, but why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment