From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-05T22:52:11+09:00
Subject: Re: old syntax? what's going on here

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:
>         Subject: old syntax? what's going on here
>         Date: mar 05 feb 13 10:33:35 +0900
>
> Quoting tamouse mailing lists (tamouse.lists@gmail.com):
>
>> I have this in a _spec.rb file: (a gem I inherited at work)
>>
>> Open3.expects(:popen3).with do |command|
>>       case part_of_command
>>       when Regexp: command =~ part_of_command
>>       when String: command.include?(part_of_command)
>>       else raise "Can't match that"
>>       end
>>     end
>
> Are you sure that code ever worked?
>
> From my very worn copy of "Ruby in a nutshell":
>
> "A *when* statement's *expression* is separated from *code* by the
> reserved word *then*, a newline, or a semicolon."
>
> That colon should be a semicolon (or *then* or a newline)...

Heh, no -- I've inherited this little bit of thing that no one in the
group has ever done much with.