From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T20:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with case statements

On Dec 21, 2007 12:48 PM, Lee Jarvis <ljjarvis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:
> > if you want to put the body of the when in the same line you need a
> > then keyword:
>
> 1.8.6 works with a keyword or a colon, I think this is what Hemant
> means.. 1.9 obviously doesn't support using them (I can't test it right
> now)
>
> >> def find(*args)
> >> case args.first
> >> when :first: puts "first"
> >> when :all: puts "all"
> >> else raise "invalid"
> >> end
> >> end
> => nil
> >> find :first, 1, 2, 3, 4
> first
>
>
> As you can see, Hemants example works fine with colons in 1.8.6, perhaps
> not in 1.9, though...
> I normally use 'then' in either case..

Oh, you are right, I missed the colon after the symbol. :-(
Sorry for the noise.

Jesus.