From: jason r tibbetts <tibbettj@...>
Date: 2005-07-15T23:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: difference?

Daniel Brockman wrote:
> "Gene Tani" <gene.tani@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hmm, seems to be few ways to test/monitor
>>membership/inheritance/mix-in-ness:
> 
> 
> Indeed. :-)
> 
> 
>>Object#kind_of?, #is_a?,
>>
>>Module#ancestors,
>>
>>MyClassname === myobj
> 
> 
> Interestingly, you've listed these in order of preference:
> 
>  * foo.kind_of? Foo                    --- perfect
>  * foo.is_a? Foo                       --- unrubyish due to `is_*?'

What's unrubyish about is_a?