From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T01:26:53+09:00
Subject: Re: What does it take to make an object hashable, no really...

On 9/13/06, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a reason why an implementation of eql? is needed instead of
> just being able to define <=>?
>
> Farrel

The results of <=> are always a Fixnum -- specifically 1, 0, -1

A Fixnum always evaluates to true in a boolean expression in Ruby.
You have to use eql? if you want to get a true/false result.

TwP