From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T08:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing an Object Class from a method  to a caller

dblack@superlink.net wrote:

>Hi --
>
>On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Michael Garriss wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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'.
>>    
>>
>
>I think it's actually returning the result of break, which is nil
>(but can be assigned with "break val" in 1.8.0).
>
>  
>
def this
  break "cool" while true
end
--> nil
this
--> "cool"

I can't remember the last day I went without learning something cool 
about Ruby.

Michael