From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T20:29:32+09:00
Subject: Re: WTF? Case statement disfunctional?

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Pieter Hugo <pieter@internext.co.za> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Change it to
a = 1
case a
 when Fixnum
   puts "It's a number silly"
 else
   puts "Can't figure it out"
end

Case statement turns into ===
and Fixnum === Fixnum is false, however, Fixnum === 1 is true

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