From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T12:49:08+09:00
Subject: Re: range max


On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Marek Kasperkiewicz wrote:

> thanks Morton,
> I thought ruby supposed to be better than Perl and Python combined,  
> but
> I can see that's not the case yet.

cfp:~ > cat a.rb
class Lang < String
   class ::NilClass
     def succ() Lang('perl') end
   end

   def succ
     Lang(
       case self
         when /perl/i then 'python'
         when /python/i then 'ruby'
         else super
       end
     )
   end

   def <=> other
     case other
       when /ruby/i then match('ruby') ? 0 : -1
       else super
     end
   end
end
def Lang(*a, &b) Lang.new(*a, &b) end


language = nil

list = [] and 3.times{ list << list.last.succ }

p list

p list.max, list.reverse.max, list.sort_by{ rand }.max


cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
["perl", "python", "ruby"]
"ruby"
"ruby"
"ruby"


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