From: Jesse Silliman <wierdbro@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T09:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel.=== in case statements, even though I never calle

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> case uses === (pattern match) not ==.
> 
> It is very useful:
> 
> case str
> when /foo/
>    ...
> end
> 
> case num
> when 3..5
>    ...
> end

Oh, I'm quite aware of that. Oh... its calling the objects inherited 
Kernel.===, not calling Kernel::===. Ok, well, in that case, a good 
question would be "Why is it so much slower in simple cases than == is, 
even though for string they do the exact same thing?"

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