From: Dave <dlc-usenet@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T05:53:22+09:00
Subject: Why isn't Range Comparable?


Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe this has been discussed already 
and I just haven't found it yet in the archives....

If a Range is an ordered set, which depends on it's members having
'<=>' and succ() methods, then why is there no Range#<=>, so to speak?
This simple experiment seems to work fine with a Range of Fixnums, but
I haven't tried other object types yet:

irb(main):016:0* class Range
irb(main):017:1> def <=>(other)
irb(main):018:2> return 0 if self.member?(other)
irb(main):019:2> return -1 if other < self.begin
irb(main):020:2> return 1 if other > self.end
irb(main):021:2> raise "Bogus!"
irb(main):022:2> end
irb(main):023:1> end

irb(main):025:0> (1..10) <=> 11
1
irb(main):026:0> (1..10) <=> 0 
-1
irb(main):027:0> (1..10) <=> 1
0

I'd find this useful in deciding between exception messages, for
example.