From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T05:50:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing an Object Class from a method  to a caller

RLMuller wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> I can't seem to pass an Object Class from a method to a calling routine
>  
> Here's what I wrote:
>  
> def getTypeOf(o)
>         aTypes = [Array, String, Numeric, Fixnum, Struct, MatchData]
>         result = Object
>         i = 0
>         for t in aTypes
>             i += 1
>             if o.is_a?t then
>                 result=t
>                 print "Index = #{i.to_s}: Type = '#{t.to_s}'\n"
>                 break
>             end
>         result
>         end
> end


Looks like your 'break' is passing the 'result' line and thus returning 
the result of 'print'.

Michael