From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T00:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Comparing Classes with Case ?

Selon Warren Seltzer <warrens@actcom.net.il>:

> The following failure surprised me:
>
> Version 1:
>
> irb(main):068:0> "hi".class == "hi".class
> => true
> irb(main):069:0> "hi".class === "hi".class
> => false
>
>
> Version 2:
>
> irb(main):055:0> case "whatever".class
> irb(main):056:1> when String
> irb(main):057:1>   p "it is a string"
> irb(main):058:1> else
> irb(main):059:1*  p "it is not a string"
> irb(main):060:1> end
> "it is not a string"
>
> What it amounts to is you can't use case/when to test for class.  This is a
> HUGE LOSE.
> The pickaxe book .chm says YOU CAN do it.  I'm using ruby 1.8.2
>

Lose the ".class". === automatically looks for the class of the left argument.
In your case example, just write:
case "whatever"
when String
  p "it is a string"
else
  p "it is not a string"
end

It's work like a charm. Basically "a === SomeClass" is the same as "a.class ==
SomeClass".
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