From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T09:27:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17712] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #252] (Open) Array#sort doesn't respect overridden <=>


On Jul 9, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:

> junk = %w[these words should be sorted in the order of their length]
> puts junk.sort
>
> MRI (1.8, 1.9) does not respect new behavior of <=>.
>
> Bug or feature?


I seem to remember this from a while back--I seem to remember that   
String is special-cased for performance.