From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T07:38:25+09:00
Subject: Re: When clever is stupid [RANT]

Martin DeMello wrote:
> I like the "case true" idiom here:
> 
> result = case true
> when a == b: 0
> when a < b  : 1
> when a > b  : -1
> end
> 
> martin

Going further OT, but you can omit the "true":

result = case
when a == b: 0
when a < b  : 1
when a > b  : -1
end

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