You often see the Array shortcut in code…
%w(foo bar sed) # => ["foo", "bar", "sed"]
…but how many of the other Ruby Shortcuts are you aware of? Personally I knew about half of them.
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I’m partial to %w[foo bar sed] as the brackets are a bit more array-esque
Good call.