From: "Schüle Daniel" <uval@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T09:43:02+09:00
Subject: Re: case question

Caleb Tennis wrote:
>>
>> it must miss something
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
> 
> case comparisons are done using ===.
> 
> irb(main):017:0> nil.class === NilClass
> => false
> irb(main):018:0> nil.class == NilClass
> => true
> 
> For classes/modules, it's used to determine if an instance is a  
> descendant:

nil.kind_of? NilClass

can I assume that === is in this context the same as kind_of?
or are there subtle differences between them

> irb(main):027:0> 5 === Fixnum
> => false
> irb(main):028:0> Fixnum === 5
> => true
> 
> Caleb

thanks to both, this helps