From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T22:02:24+09:00
Subject: Re: string range membership

> I'm not sure how to solve this.

This was discussed sometime ago. The solution (mostly arrived at by
Peter Vanbroekhoven) is to use a different comparision method. In
Facets you'll find the #cmp method, which is part of the base methods,
and which is used by the Interval class --a true Interval as opposed to
what Range is.

  def cmp(other)
    return -1 if length < other.length
    return 1 if length > other.length
    self <=> other
  end

Of course this won't be of use to tuple forms like "1.18.12", but in
such cases a Tuple object is in order anyway.

T.