From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T00:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple conditional causing hanging?

Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> On Aug 30, 2008, at 18:56 , Michael Morin wrote:
> 
>> You want @thisLine.nil?.  Alternatively, you could use @thisLine == 
>> nil, @thisLine.class == NilClass, or even @thisClass === NilClass.  
>> But @thisLine.nil? is the preferred way.
> 
> NilClass === @thisLine
> 
> class must come first to use Module#===
> 
> 

Ah, I'd actually wondered about that.

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