From: "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
Date: 2013-02-28T22:09:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53035] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7986][Open] Custom case statement comparison method


Issue #7986 has been reported by trans (Thomas Sawyer).

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Feature #7986: Custom case statement comparison method
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7986

Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: Next Major


=begin
Case statements use #=== to handle matching, but sometimes this can be limiting. It such cases it would be helpful to be able to specify the comparison method. So I wondered if that could be done by hanging the method off the `case` keyword, e.g.

    class Bar < Foo; end

    case == obj.class
    when Foo
      p "Foo, not Bar!"
    when Bar
      p "Bar!"
    end

And

    case.include? name
    when a
      p "a includes name"
    when b
      p "b includes name, not a"
    else
      p "neither a or b includes name"
    end
=end



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