@sunshine@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 month agoI'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pinklemmy.mlimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1297arrow-down18
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minus-squareOriel Jutty :hhHHHAAAH:linkfedilink4•1 month agoDoes 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;.
minus-square@HelloRoot@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 month agoYes, but why? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
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 areqw+a b c+andqw;a b c;.Yes, but why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment