From: Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@...>
Date: 2005-10-31T12:26:26+09:00
Subject: Re: determining whether an object is an immediate?

On 10/31/05, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/05, Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ouch, except Object:
> >
> > >> [Object, Fixnum, Symbol, NilClass, FalseClass, TrueClass].each {
> > |c| c.instance_eval { define_method(:immediate?) { (Object == self) ?
> > false : true } } }
> > #=> [Object, Fixnum, Symbol, NilClass, FalseClass, TrueClass]
> > >> Fixnum.immediate?
> > #=> true
> > >> Object.immediate?
> > #=> false
>
> But also:
>
> irb(main):007:0> 'string'.immediate?
> => true
> irb(main):008:0> [].immediate?
> => true
> irb(main):009:0> Array.immediate?
> => true
>
> Yours returns true for everything except Object. The other version I
> posted is correct.
>
> Ryan
>
>

Right. 'self' should not be there. Thanks for correcting.

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