From: Bart Braem <bart.braem@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T17:05:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum value of hash

Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:

> Just in case you didn't realise this, the Array class (and, thus, all
> arrays) has the max method. �If you wanted the max of two values, you'd
> put those two values in an array and then take the max of that array...
> 
> a = 2
> b = 3
> max = [a, b].max
> 
> Since Hash#values returns an array of hash values...

I did realize that the Array class has the max method. After some browsing
to the documentation I also understand the inclusion of Enumerable and its
effects. I must say, my code gets really clean this way.

I'm starting to like ruby a lot. Yesterday I had to prototype an algorithm
and with Ruby I did that in a quarter of an hour. That's really fast! My
colleagues were surprised about the code, they knew how to read it without
knowing ruby!

Impressed a lot,
Bart