防止在 Ruby 模式匹配中将变量绑定到 nil？

Question

在使用新的case ... in pattern matching in Ruby 时，是否有防止nil 绑定到变量的好方法？

case method()
in ... # Some cases here
  ...
in ...
  ...
in variable # If previous clauses did not match, then capture to variable
  puts variable
else # How to prevent that variable also captures nil?
  puts "Nil" # -> This is not called if method() returns nil
end

我找到了以下两种方法，但它们看起来很丑：

1.) 使用if 限定符

case method()
in ... # Some cases here
  ...
in ...
  ...
in variable if variable
  puts variable
else 
  puts "Nil"
end

2.) 反向匹配顺序

case method()
in ... # Some cases here
  ...
in ...
  ...
in nil
  puts "Nil"
in variable # Catch all
  puts variable
end

还有更好的吗？

---

这还能怎么用？这将允许一种使用单行模式匹配表达式对nil 进行比较和赋值的好方法：

if method() => variable
  ... 
end

（这个问题的灵感来自a question on assignments in if statements）

Answer 1

匹配没有赋值的 NilClass

如果您决定忽略 nil，您可以通过简单地匹配 NilClass 然后不分配结果来做到这一点。在调用您的 as-pattern（例如in variable）或 else 子句之前执行此操作。例如：

# arg can be assigned `nil` but can't be unassigned; this
# ensures that any nil values were actually passed in
def pattern_match arg
  case arg
  in /^a$/ => bar
  in NilClass
  in bar
  end

  # We print a message here to differentiate between arg and
  # bar being `nil`, because otherwise the method simply
  # returns `nil` since bar is auto-vivified by the
  # interpreter when it evaluates the case statement. This is
  # a potential source of confusion when looking at the
  # results.
  bar || 'matched NilClass'
end

# pass values through a scope gate for testing each
# assignment to bar in isolation
[?a, 'str', 1, nil].map { pattern_match _1 }
#=> ["a", "str", 1, "matched NilClass"]