From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T03:35:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24190] Re: Limits of dynamism?

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Ryan Leavengood wrote:

> class Module
>   alias_method :__old_case_eq__, :===
>   def ===(other)
>     if other.kind_of? self
>       return true
>     else
>       __old_case_eq__(other)
>     end
>   end
> end
> 
> Do this and it works.  Otherwise Ruby uses its C API to determine the
> class of an object, which will return T for T.  But by explicitly
> calling kind_of? we can delegate to the internal class and it works
> correctly.
> 
My point was to ask the community and matz why this isn't the default
behavior.

/Robert