From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T18:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] case based on object class

George Moschovitis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I wonder if there is a more elegant/efficient way to rewrite
> the case structure in the following code snippet:
> 
> def myfunc(obj)
>         case obj.class.name
>                 when Fixnum.name
>                         puts :Fixnum
>                 when Float.name
>                         puts :Float
>                 ...
>                 default
>                         puts :Object
>         end
> end

case obj
when Fixnum
   puts obj.class.to_s.to_sym
when Float
   ...
else
   puts :Object
end


Regards,

   Michael