From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T12:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: what on earth..

On 3/22/06, Mike Stok <mike@stok.ca> wrote:
>
> On 22-Mar-06, at 9:51 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > a = 5
> > puts  Fixnum == a.class   # spits out true
> >
> > # spits out "Who knows what I am.  :-("
> > case a.class
> > when Fixnum
> >   puts "I'm a fixnum!"
> > else
> >   puts "Who knows what I am.  :-("
> > end
> >
> >
> > What's going on here?
>
> case doesn't use == you can do this:
>
> a = 5
>
> case a
> when Fixnum
>    puts "I'm a fixnum"
> else
>    puts "other"
> end

Very nice, thanks!  Less code is always better.