From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T18:47:12+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:

Certainly... see below.

> def myfunc(obj)
>         case obj
>                 when Fixnum
>                         puts :Fixnum
>                 when Float
>                         puts :Float
>                 ...
>                 default
>                         puts :Object
>         end
> end

This works because case invokes ===, which takes a minute
or three to understand.  :)


Hal

PS - In my Mozilla, your font is microscopic.  :0


H