From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-03-27T14:31:34+09:00
Subject: Re: case not calling class' '===' method?

In article <1048739230.024452.29873.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "case not calling class' '===' method?"
>    on 03/03/27, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
>
>|maybe I'm missing something obvious...
>|
>|I've defined a '===' operator for my class, but it doesn't seem to get 
>|called by case.  Here's the code:
>
>In a code like
>
>  case a
>  when b
>    ...
>  end
>
>"===" is called like "b === a", not "a === b".  I hope this explains
>what happened on your code.
>
>							matz.
>

Thanks matz.  Could you explain why it is done this way? 

Phil