From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-12-13T20:27:56+09:00
Subject: Re: human-readable listing of array elements

On 10.12.2009 18:48, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2009/12/10 Aldric Giacomoni<aldric@trevoke.net>:
>>> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes. �case won't handle<= conditions AFAIK.
>>>
>>> That is a very good point, though it does handle ranges, so "case 0..1"
>>> would fit this particular scenario.
>>> Your elsif statement is probably better suited here though.
>>
>> That point is not exactly true: while it doesn't out of the box...
>
> c:\>irb
> irb(main):001:0>  RUBY_VERSION
> =>  "1.8.7"
> irb(main):002:0>  5.times { |a| case a; when 0..2 then puts "yow" else
> puts "nah" end }
> yow
> yow
> yow
> nah
> nah
> =>  5
> irb(main):003:0>
>
> Alright.. Well then, I'm confused.

My comment referred to the "won't handle <=" part.  I demonstrated how 
it can be made to handle less than comparisons directly, i.e. without 
using ranges which is not exactly the same operation.

Cheers

	robert

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