[ruby-core:91944] [Ruby trunk Feature#15722] `Kernel#case?`

Issue #15722 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


This is an interesting idea. I have not thought through all implications but not withholding
that, I like it so +1 from me. I think matz has to decide  whether this may be useful. Since
I love case/when in ruby in general, any extension, even secondary ideas, seem useful to me. :)
Although I have to admit, I am not sure if I yet had a use case as suggested by sawa, but I
still think it is a good idea.

I think whether it is on Kernel or Object or Enumerable is not the primary concern (that can
be decided anyway) - if matz is too busy right now then perhaps this could be suggested for
the next developer meeting to get more feedback.

I did not know about Rails in?, but I do not like the name "in?". I have no problem with
"case?".

One possible question from the core team might be whether the use case is sufficient (for
many ruby users). I can not answer that myself, to be honest, if that question would come
up - but I still like the idea.

PS: I almost overlooked the comment by osyo; I agree, that is a different suggestion so
I was confused for a moment. The original suggestion by sawa is clearer IMO and more
appropriate (to the proposed suggestion); wording it like:

    ["foo", "bar", "baz"].case? bar 

would be different, and is actually a bit confusing to me. So it should best be ignored;
sawa's original description is clearer and makes more sense to me, but this is just an
aside - I only was confused for a moment when I read the second code part by osyo.

----------------------------------------
Feature #15722: `Kernel#case?`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15722#change-77276

* Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
----------------------------------------
I often want to use `===` to match a single object on the right side against multiple objects on the left, as is used in `case`-constructions, just to return a truth value, and end up writing like this:

```ruby
bar # => "bar"
flag1 = case bar; when "foo", "bar", "baz"; true; end # => true
flag2 = case bar; when Symbol, String; true; end # => true
```

I propose `Kernel#case?` that should work like this:

```ruby
bar # => "bar"
bar.case?("foo", "bar", "baz") # => true
bar.case?("qux") # => false
bar.case?(Symbol, String) # => true
bar.case?(Array) # => false
bar.case? # => false
```

It is similar to Rails' `in?`, but it differs from it in that it uses `===` for comparison, not `==`.



-- 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

Unsubscribe: <mailto:[e-mail]?subject=unsubscribe>
<http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>