From: richB <richard_a_brunner@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T11:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: For Float#class why is '===' different from '=='


richB wrote:
> I appreciate the responses. I'm still puzzled. It seems that "case a"
> is different from "case a.class" and that the comparison being done by
> "===" in when is influenced by the type/class of the when operand.
>
> I guess I wasn't expecting this.  I am still trying to iron out my
> conceptual understanding. Is it that "case a" is asking about the
> object a, whereas
> "case a.class" is asking about the object/attribute a.class. Clearly a
> is Float but a.class is something else that evaluates to Float?
>

What I mean to say is "a.class" is something that indicates "a" is a
Float, but "a.class" is not itself a Float value.