From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2004-02-04T01:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR draft for enhanced "case..when..else..end" syntax

Robert Klemme wrote:
> "Gennady" <gfb@tonesoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:401FC5BB.10809@tonesoft.com...
> 
>>Guoliang Cao wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm thinking of submitting a RCR. Here is the draft. Comments are
> 
> welcome.
> 
>>>Thanks,
>>>Cao
>>
>>Do you know about this syntax currently available?
>>
>>a = "aaa"
>>b = "bbb"
>>case
>>   when a == "aaa", b == "bbb"
>>     puts "Lowercase detected"
>>   when a == "AAA", b == "BBB"
>>     puts "Uppercase detected"
>>   else
>>     puts "Detection failed"
>>end
> 
> 
> Since which version of Ruby?  Thx!
> 
>     robert
> 
> 

I checked that it works in 1.6.8. I remember somebody (Nobu?) mentioning 
it on ruby-talk some time ago.

Gennady.