From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-16T15:54:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15247] Re: Pluggable sorting - How would you do it?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15234] Pluggable sorting - How would you do it?"
    on 01/05/16, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|Passing a block to "sort" is neat, but it's a little more 
|intrusive than I have in mind.
|
|I thought about a Proc object or something... but I ended
|up doing it this way (see code below).
|
|It works. But I'm sure many of you have better ideas.
|
|How would *you* do it?

GOTO Kentaro once proposed something like this.

  a = x.sort_by{|x| x.str}
  b = x.sort_by{|x| x.int}
  c = x.sort_by{|x| x.chr}

It implements Schwartzian transformation inside.  I like this idea,
but am not yet sure "sort_by" is a proper name for the behavior.

							matz.