From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-06-06T04:14:50+09:00
Subject: Re: why cannot i put conditions in when clause

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> You can do this:
>
> case
> when a==0
> when a>0
> end

First of all: huh.  Learn something new about Ruby (almost) every day.

That said - why would you do this rather than an if/elsif?  I'm
genuinely curious.  E.g.

  if a == 0 then ...
  elsif a>0 then ...
  end

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