From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-09T23:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: why doesn't Array include Comparable

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> But spaceship is already defined for array (and it does the right thing
> (tm)). If Array is going to make spaceship available, why _not_ include
> Comparable?

yeah - exactly.  by implimenting <=> it __is__ comparable in that one can
indeed to

   a = 0,1,2
   b = 2,3,4

   lt = (a <=> b) == -1
   eq = (a <=> b) == 0
   gt = (a <=> b) == 1

so it's just anoying that i can't acutally say

   lt = a < b

2 cts.

-a
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