From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-10T10:11:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22365] Re: blocks with min and max

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:22333] Re: blocks with min and max"
    on 01/10/10, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|> |    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.

Hmm, trade off.  How about using singleton method?

  def ary.<=>(a,b)
    ...
  end

This requires no enhancement.


							matz.