[ruby-core:40768] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5574] Make arrays comparable

Issue #5574 has been updated by Thomas Sawyer.


Ruby Facets provides a Tuple class, which is an immutable Array that is also Comparable. I believe I may have suggested Ruby provide such a class in the past. If Array can not be Comparable for some reason, perhaps this is a reasonable alternative.
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Feature #5574: Make arrays comparable
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5574

Author: Arnau Sanchez
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Why are arrays not comparable? _Array_ already defines _<=>_, so it seems only natural to mix-in the _Comparable_ module.

<pre>
> [1, 2] < [1, 1] 
NoMethodError: undefined method `<' for [1, 2]:Array

> Array.send(:include, Comparable)
> [1, 2] < [1, 1] 
=> false
</pre>

This was already discussed in the mailing list a while ago and people agreed it would be useful:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/76535


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