On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Mark Wilden <mark / mwilden.com> wrote: > On May 27, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Todd Benson wrote: > >> When, I first saw ===, I immediately hit the docs out of curiosity, >> having never seen it before, and therefore never had a problem with >> it. > > I like the moniker David Black cites: "the threequal operator." It's cute, but I think it gives the wrong impression that === is another form of ==, it's really not, since it's prime motivation is use with the case statement, I think it's better to think of it has having a meaning more like a general sense of 'matches'. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/