From: eden li <eden.li@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T16:34:52+09:00
Subject: Does case/when really use ===?

Can someone explain why my class's === method is never called in the
following code?

irb(main):001:0> class C; def ===(k); puts "===(#{k.inspect}) called";
true; end; end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> case C.new; when String; 'is a String'; else; 'not a
String'; end
=> "not a String"

I expected "===(String) called" to be printed out somewhere, somewhat
like:

irb(main):003:0> C.new === String
===(String) called
=> true

Am I misunderstanding how case/when works?