From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-08-02T05:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] natcmp.rb added to string class

Hello,

On Sunday, August 1, 2004, at 03:56  AM, Michael Neumann wrote:

> Hm, I think it's good to have this as an external library. This could 
> then extend both String and Array classes. E.g.
>
>   require 'natsort'
>
>   ["a10", "a2"].sort {|a,b| a.natcmp(b) }
>   # or
>   ["a10", "a2"].natsort

The only reason I think that this would be better as a standard 
library, instead of being directly on String and Array, is that it 
would be easier to maintain the code.  From a user point of view, I'd 
like those functions to just be on String.

Cheers,

Patrick