From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T13:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: range max

On Oct 13, 12:04 am, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:
>
>
>
> > 1) Range#max is mixed in from Enumerable
>
> but #include? is not
>
> > 2) "When used as an iterator, ranges return each value in the
> > *sequence*." Pickaxe p. 597
>
> that is true, and here it is an interval
>
> case 0.5
>    when 0 ... 1
>     p true
>    when 1 ... 2
>     p false
> end
>
> they can act as either
>
> > 4) "range max conversation".max == this post
>
> the OP's question is about why the current max is slow.  the reason
> is because ranges are not always sequences.
>
> regards.

Dude, you totally missed your cue about point #3. You were supposed to
say, "no, you're wrong, an elephant's trunk feels the same as its
tail". Cool, I guess we do agree on something :)