From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-28T10:17:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29502] Re: C extensions to Ruby: classes vs. types

At Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:22:17 +0900,
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> And I'm confused.
> Is there any document where type vs. class is explained in details ?

README.EXT can't help you?


> I want to do something like that:

static VALUE
myclass_mymethod(VALUE self, VALUE arg)
{
    VALUE result;

    if (rb_obj_is_instance_of(arg, CLASS1)) {
	result = action1;
    }
    else if (rb_obj_is_kind_of(arg, CLASS2)) {
	result = action2;
    }
    else {
	rb_raise(exception, "something wicked");
    }
    return result;
}


Nobu Nakada