David Mertz wrote:
> One big problem with the current obvious way would be shared by the
> proposal. This hits me fairly often.
> colors1 = "red green blue".split()  # happy
> Later
> colors2 = "cyan   forest green  burnt umber".split()
> # oops, not what I wanted, quote each separately

Good point. In Ruby, this could be written correctly as `%w{cyan   forest green 
 burnt\ umber}`
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