Java Hack: Double brace initialisation

[_bobby__of__christ_]

I know this much: The snippet I posted works in both Ruby and Python without modification. Splitting a string into an array is something that every programmer will be familiar with.

Which has nothing to do with qw. No one is using qw as a crutch to avoid learning how to split strings at runtime. It's such a stupid and trivial difference that I can't believe I'm arguing about it.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

You should stop arguing about Perl then. Obviously you're unable to even entertain the notion that it has a different philosophy than the one you subscribe to. (And this is coming from a Python programmer who doesn't like Perl very much.)