From: Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T23:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: case equality question

Hm...I'm not sure I like that it doesn't go the other way. I like it
when code is easily converted to plain speech, when a line can be read
across quickly. And this seems to break that. Maybe not, but here's
how I see it:

b === a checks if a is-a b, right? Well isn't it a lot easier to read/
write/say "A is a B" than "B is instantiated in A" or "An example of B
is A"? Maybe this is a semantic quibble, but since English speakers
(and consequently a majority of the programming community) read left
to right, wouldn't it make more sense to have it behave this way?

It wouldn't even necessarily break case statements, since the .===
method would be part of all of the basic type classes (Fixnum/String/
etc) and there's always .class

This is just my opinion, and I admit to not knowing a lot yet. But I
figured I'd voice my thoughts.