Ruby的case语法

switch/case syntaxes
(remember: Ruby uses "case" and "when"
where others use "switch" and "case"):

# Basically if/elsif/else (notice there's nothing
# after the word "case"):
[variable = ] case
when bool_condition
  statements
when bool_condition
  statements
else # the else clause is optional
  statements
end
# If you assigned 'variable =' before the case,
# the variable now has the value of the
# last-executed statement--or nil if there was
# no match.  variable=if/elsif/else does this too.

# It's common for the "else" to be a 1-line
# statement even when the cases are multi-line:
[variable = ] case
when bool_condition
  statements
when bool_condition
  statements
else statement
end

# Case on an expression:
[variable = ] case expression
when nil
  statements execute if the expr was nil
when Type1 [ , Type2 ] # e.g. Symbol, String
  statements execute if the expr
  resulted in Type1 or Type2 etc.
when value1 [ , value2 ]
  statements execute if the expr
  equals value1 or value2 etc.
when /regexp1/ [ , /regexp2/ ]
  statements execute if the expr
  matches regexp1 or regexp 2 etc.
when min1..max1 [ , min2..max2 ]
  statements execute if the expr is in the range
  from min1 to max1 or min2 to max2 etc.
  (use 3 dots min...max to go up to max-1)
else
  statements
end

# When using case on an expression you can mix &
# match different types of expressions. E.g.,
[variable =] case expression
when nil, /regexp/, Type
  statements execute when the expression
  is nil or matches the regexp or results in Type
when min..max, /regexp2/
  statements execute when the expression is
  in the range from min to max or matches regexp2
end

# You can combine matches into an array and
# precede it with an asterisk. This is useful when
# the matches are defined at runtime, not when
# writing the code. The array can contain a
# combination of match expressions
# (strings, nil, regexp, ranges, etc.)
[variable =] case expression
when *array_1
  statements execute when the expression matches one
  of the elements of array_1
when *array_2
  statements execute when the expression matches one
  of the elements of array_2
end

# Compact syntax with 'then':
[variable =] case expression
when something then statement
when something then statement
else statement
end

# Compact syntax with semicolons:
[variable =] case expression
when something; statement
when something; statement
else statement # no semicolon required
end

# Compact syntax with colons
# (no longer supported in Ruby 1.9)
[variable =] case expression
when something: statement
when something: statement
else statement # no colon required
end

# 1-line syntax:
[variable = ] case expr when {Type|value}
  statements
end

# Formatting: it's common to indent the "when"
# clauses and it's also common not to:
case
  when
  when
  else
end

case
when
when
else
end