From: Haris Bogdanovic <fbogdanovic@...>
Date: 2009-01-09T20:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: functional programming

I managed to find a minimum:

[1,6,4,7,8].inject {|a,b| if a < b then a else b end}

but I can't still find a way to sort list (functional way and not with 
existing sort method)

Thanks

"Haris Bogdanovic" <fbogdanovic@xnet.hr> wrote in message 
news:gk3m77$1ft$1@gregory.bnet.hr...
> Hi.
>
> I'm starting to learn functional programming with Ruby.
> I would like for someone to write me an example of finding the smallest 
> number in the list and a sorting algorithm.
> I got the concept of map (collect), filter (select, detect and reject) and 
> reduce (inject) higher order functions but I don't know how to compose 
> algorithms from them.
> So please write me those two algorithms or some other simple ones with 
> some explanation.
> Some links to this subject would be nice also.
>
> Thanks
> Haris
>