From: khabibiuf@... (Khurram)
Date: 2002-10-30T23:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: How to invoke === using custom classes and case statements.

Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.44.0210281622230.11279-100000@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi>...
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Khurram wrote:
> 
> > case a
> > when 'hello';printf "Blah....\n"
> > when 'bye' ; printf "Blah....Blah...\n"
> > else; printf "Blah... Blah... Blah...\n"
> > end
> 
> This is equivalent to:
> 
> if 'hello' === a
>   ...
> elsif 'bye' === a
>   ...
> else
>   ...
> end
> 
> You see? The case statement uses the argument of the when clause as the
> receiver.
> 
>   -- Nikodemus


Hmmm... so it seems like I cannot use the case statement to test
objects of the class I created In the way I originally suggested.  I
would have to put the class object in the when clause, which seems
counter-intuitive.

Is there any other way I could do this?