From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T02:14:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Announcing Reg 0.4.0

Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> writes:

> 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"

Nice, that conses a lot but is readable and understandable.  Thanks!

> Ilmari Heikkinen
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