From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T12:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: range max

Marek Kasperkiewicz wrote:
> Morton Goldberg wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Marek Kasperkiewicz wrote:
>>
>>> If i try this
>>> puts (1..10).max
>>> it runs fine.
>>> If i try this
>>> puts (1..100000000).max
>>> It is extremely slow. Instead of using straight math max= 100000000-1
>>> it uses some king of interator to find out the value of max.
>>> What is the catch here?
>>
>> I'm afraid that's the way the Enumerable mixin works.
>> ...
> 
> thanks Morton,
> I thought ruby supposed to be better than Perl and Python combined, but
> I can see that's not the case yet.

You think this has anything to do with the quality of the language?...

mortee