From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T04:05:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Amazing Mazes (#31)

Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I know about rbtree, but it isn't in the stdlib, so I didn't want to  
> use it for the quiz. Ruby really lacks a nice sorted set out of the box  
> (SortedSet in set.rb uses rbtree, if it is installed, otherwise it just  
> resorts the elements, when they changed and it has no accessor for the  
> min/max elements).

Ah - yes, good point. But rbtree really ought to make it into the
stdlib, IMO. Having it in there would promote good algorithmic
practices.

martin