From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2010-09-03T16:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: case (variable) when type1 ... when type2 ... end

No, it's not a special behavior.  Explanation is here.

http://ruby.about.com/od/beginningruby/qt/On-Case-And-Class.htm

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:25 AM, tilde <tilde@autistici.org> wrote:
> On 08/30/10 10:33, Jean-Julien Fleck wrote:
>>>
>>> how can I write case statement to check of specific type the variable
>>> has?
>>> Something like:
>>
>> It simpler:
>>
>>> case var
>>> when :Fixnum
>>>  puts "#{var} is Fixnum"
>>> when :String
>>>  puts "#{var} is String"
>>> end
>>
>> case var
>> when Fixnum
>>  puts "#{var} is Fixnum"
>> when String
>>  puts "#{var} is String"
>> end
>>
>> (no ":")
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
> Hi, could you explain me why this works? It's a special behaviour of the
> "case" statment?
>
>