From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-22T20:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: rubynuby - confused by method name "inject"

On 5/22/06, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ..then again, using inject to find longest seems a bit silly...
> >
> > longest_sample = data[0]
> > data.each do |sample|
> >         longest_sample = sample if sample.length > longest_sample.length
> > end
> > puts "Longest sample: #{longest_sample.inspect}, length #{longest_length}"
>
> longest_sample = data.max{|a,b| a.length <=> b.length}

Yes precisely! That's what I like about Ruby, everyone's a smartypants!
(one day I will be too!)