From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T02:18:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Document

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby Document


> "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> 
> > I would do
> > 
> >   NOUN = :NOUN
> >   VERB = :VERB
> >   ...
> > 
> >   if word.type == NOUN ...
> > 
> > Your way is prone to evil spelling mistakes!
> 
> If you do that, is there a reason not to take the next step?
> 
>     if word.type == :NOUN

This test would always test false (because of the 
misspelling):

   if word.type == :NUON    

Otherwise it would be caught as an error. That's
what I think he means.

Hal