From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-10T04:05:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22333] Re: blocks with min and max

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:22326] Re: blocks with min and max"
>     on 01/10/10, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
> 
> |Or even the more general case
> |
> |    Comparable#compare_using { .... }
> 
> I think this intrduces another hidden status, which is hard to handle,
> and easy to forget.


If a collection has specific collation rules, then keeping it with the
collection might be more encapsulated that spreading through the code
that uses the collection. That's all I was thinking.


Dave