From: Chris Sepic <chris.sepic@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T08:39:50+09:00
Subject: how does sort work?

I'm confused as to how the sort method works.

If I have:
a = [ "d", "a", "e", "c", "b" ]

I know that
a.sort {|x,y| x <=> y } (or just .sort)
= ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

and
a.sort {|x,y| y <=> x }
= ["e", "d", "c", "b", "a"]

I understand how the <=> operator works, but what exactly is going on in
the block? What are x and y assigned to?
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