From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2009-03-13T22:33:03+09:00
Subject: Re: case when - symbols or strings?

Le 13 mars � 13:06, Marc Heiler a �crit :

> Or something peculiar like:
>   case value
>      when ::Hash
> 
> Which I am not even sure what it does...

It checks if the value is a member of the toplevel class Hash or one of
it's descendants - the same as 'value.is_a? Hash'.

If you are in a module and decide to create a Hash class, in the code of
your module, Hash will reference your own class.  To access the toplevel
(and builtin in this case) Hash, you need to use ::Hash.

Fred
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