From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T10:34:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17715] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #252] (Open) Array#sort doesn't respect overridden <=>


On Jul 9, 2008, at 17:27 , Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> 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.

and that's cool... but I'd like an "official" weigh in describing it  
as either specification or implementation detail. ATM, I don't think  
rubinius would see a performance loss if it respected the overridden  
<=> method.