From: Pieter Hugo <pieter@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T20:21:08+09:00
Subject: WTF? Case statement disfunctional?

Hi

I have a simple problem with the class of an object not being recognised
by the case statement. Am I just being an idiot again or is there
something more sinister going on here?

a=1
case a.class
  when Fixnum
    puts "It's a number silly"
  else
    puts "Can't figure it out"
end

This snippet of code returns "Can't figure it out" which is just wrong?

a.is_a? Fixnum => true and a.class => fixnum and a.class == Fixnum =>
true, so why dont my case statement work?

case a.class.to_s
  when "Fixnum"
...

does the trick, but it just offends my aesthetics.

Any ideas? Comments?

Regards

Pieter Hugo
South Africa
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