From: Chris Sepic <chris.sepic@...>
Date: 2008-02-03T12:09:25+09:00
Subject: Re: how does sort work?

> to understand this, you can think of "sort" taking a function as a 
> parameter.  and sort() will pass 2 numbers to this function, and 
> rearragne the elements according to the return value of -1, 0, or 1.
> 
> that's it.  to understand it fully, you can read about "iterators" in 
> Ruby.  where you can take a block as a function, and "yield" arguments 
> to this function, and get back a return value.

I understand sorting and sorting algorithms - I was tripped up by the 
function as a parameter thing. Thanks!




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