From: Vimal <j.vimal@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T19:39:09+09:00
Subject: Re: type information

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Hi there!
You seem to be from IITB! Great! I am from IIT Madras.

>
> how does the interpreter (ruby1.8.5) store the type information of a
> variable
> how will i retrieve it ?


If you want to retrieve it in a ruby program, which is what you might want
to do obviously, is to use
puts variable_name.class

You can do comparisons like:
if variable_name.class == "String" then do this etc.

If you want to know how its handled Inside the interpreter, in C, grep for
types like: T_STRING, T_FIXNUM in "ruby.h"

Regards
Vimal
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras

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Hi there!<br>You seem to be from IITB! Great! I am from IIT Madras.<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>how does the interpreter (
ruby1.8.5) store the type information of a<br>variable<br>how will i retrieve it ?</blockquote><div><br>If you want to retrieve it in a ruby program, which is what you might want to do obviously, is to use <br>puts variable_name.class 
<br><br>You can do comparisons like: <br>if variable_name.class == &quot;String&quot; then do this etc.<br><br>If you want to know how its handled Inside the interpreter, in C, grep for types like: T_STRING, T_FIXNUM in &quot;
ruby.h&quot;<br><br>Regards<br>Vimal<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>IIT Madras<br></div></div>

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