From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T11:07:26+09:00
Subject: Re: string range membership

> All we need is making up good names for each functionality.

That is NOT all you need! This does not solve the complete problem, but
only provides a little-bitty patch for query on a Range member, and a
very inefficient one at that --which I thought was part of the reason
you changed #include and #member to be the same in the first place.

The overarching issue is that sortable and comparable are using the
same method #<=>, but they do not neccessarily want the same meaning.
You should provide a separate method for comparable --like I said, in
most cases they will be equivalent, but not so in String. And
dictionary order comparion is needed anyway. I studied this issue
exahustively over a year ago when I wrote a true Interval class.

T.