From: Dave Burt <burtdav@...>
Date: 2004-05-23T07:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: sort_by to accept symbol?

I like it.

"alex fenton" <alex@delete.pressure.to> wrote in message
news:1085254048.531196@news01.eclipse.net.uk...
> hi
>
> I was wondering whether it'd be useful for Array#sort_by to accept a
> symbol as an alternative to a block for the sort rule.
>
> So
>
> my_array.sort_by(:foo)
>
> would mean
>
> my_array.sort_by { | elem | elem.send(:foo) }
>
> It's not so much to save typing as to make it neater to use sort_by in
> chained method calls.
>
> Any takers?
>
> alex