From: Mike Austin <noone@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T16:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: what on earth..

Timothy Bennett wrote:
> Ok, this is off the original track of discussion a bit, but I wanted to 
> bring this up.
> 
> irb(main):007:0> 5 === Fixnum
> => false
> irb(main):008:0> Fixnum === 5
> => true
> 
> irb(main):001:0> 5.class === Class
> => false
> irb(main):002:0> Class === 5.class
> => true

So that was what got me a few weeks ago when using a case statement!  I was 
like 'what the ?? is happening'  It seems the === operator is an good example 
of bad overloading - it means something different to each class.  Why not let 
"abc" === "ABC" while we're at it ;)

Mike

> I understand why this is happening (I think).  I just think this needs 
> to be fixed.  Or is there a reason why === should not be commutative?
> 
> Tim