Nope, that's the intended use of ===,  polymorphic case statements. I'd go with 
the case.

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On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Jesse A Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:

> that doesn't feel typesafe to me, notice that my predicates are all calling 
> different methods - my impression is that it's a lucky coincidence that 
> NilClass, Regexp, and String's various === operations happen to DWIM in each 
> of these situations.
> of course, I imagine that you'll reply that it's not a coincidence, that you 
> and Matz painstakingly developed this to work in 1992.
> 
> ~Jesse
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Markus Roberts <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
> puppet --help should show generic usage, not puppet apply's help
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb |    3 +++
>  spec/unit/util/command_line.rb  |    8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb b/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
> index bc870be..7c3b066 100644
> --- a/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
> +++ b/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb
> @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ module Puppet
>             def self.shift_subcommand_from_argv( argv = ARGV, stdin = STDIN )
>                 if ! argv.first
>                     "apply" unless stdin.tty? # ttys get usage info
> +                elsif argv.first == "--help"
> +                    # help should give you usage, not the help for `puppet 
> apply`
> +                    nil
>                 elsif argv.first =~ /^-|\.pp$|\.rb$/
>                     "apply"
>                 else
> 
> Why I do believe this looks like one of those "case" statements I've heard so 
> much about:
> 
>    case argv.first
>    when nil;                  "apply" unless stdin.tty? # ttys get usage info
>    when "--help";          nil # help should give you usage, not the help for 
> `puppet apply`
>    when /^-|\.pp$|\.rb$/; "apply"
>    else
> 
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