From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T21:34:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference answers from Terminal, TextMate, and BBEdit

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:22:39PM +0900, Morton Goldberg wrote:
> A case statement like
> 
> <code>
> case
> when 'year' : tree.ageOneYear # , y as shortcut?
> when (1..100) : tree.pick_an_orange
> else puts('Don\'t be greedy, don\'t try to pick more than 100  oranges')
> end
> </code>
> 
> just looks for the first true when-clause. In this case that will  
> always be 'year' because everything but false and nil is true in Ruby.

That's incorrect. Case doesn't check if 'year' is true; it checks whether
'year' === obj is true.

Try this:

foo = "Hello"
case foo
when "year"
  puts "xxx"
when /ell/
  puts "yyy"   # this line is run
end