From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T05:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Announcing Reg 0.4.0


On 26.4.2005, at 20:35, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> It is already very confusing that String !=== String (what is the most
> elegant way to case compare classes against classes, btw?).

I don't know about elegant, but this is probably the way that requires 
least typing:

def make_new(klass)
   case [klass]
     when [String]: "foo"
     when [Fixnum]: 27
     when [Array]: [nil, nil, true]
   end
end

make_new String
=> "foo"

Ilmari Heikkinen
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