From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-02-02T12:59:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21729] Re: [Feature #1084] request for: Array#sort_by!

On Feb 1, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:21709] [Feature #1084] request for:  
> Array#sort_by!"
>    on Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:11:26 +0900, Rados��aw Bu��at <redmine@ruby-lang.o 
> rg> writes:
>
> |sort and sort! override it's version from Enumerable and sort_by is  
> directly from Enumerable, but for symmetry and consistency it would  
> be nice to have destructive sort_by! for Array.
>
> Despite how you expect, sort_by! is not faster than sort_by at all.
> In fact, it would use sort_by internal then replace the receiver.  Do
> you still want the "dangerous" version?

I do.  :)  I know I've typed this line a million times:

   a = a.sort_by { ��� }

James Edward Gray II