Ruby uses ===, not ==, in case statements

[dfhoughton]

In the comparison of Perl 6 with Ruby, it says Ruby lacks a smart match operator and uses == instead. This isn't quite right. Ruby uses the === method, which performs a similar function to ~~. So Class === foo matches if foo is a Class, /rx/ === foo matches if the regular expression matches foo, 1 === foo matches if foo equals 1, 'string' === foo matches ... In general === delegates to ==, but it is overridden in Class and regular expressions, and can be overridden as needed to make case statements work more intuitively in other ways.

[dfhoughton]

I'd add the "docs" label, but it seems no labels are available to me.

[Altai-man]

If I remember correctly, it was @awwaiid who was an author of Ruby-related document.
@awwaiid, what do you think about it?

[zoffixznet]

@dfhoughton I sent you an invite to Perl 6 GitHub org; you can accept it on https://github.com/perl6/

Would you be able to fix the docs and close this issue? I'm assuming you're talking about Ruby-to-Rakudo page, in which case you can just edit this file directly on GitHub: https://github.com/perl6/doc/edit/master/doc/Language/rb-nutshell.pod6

[awwaiid]

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