From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-28T00:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Why isn't Range Comparable?

Hi,

In message "Why isn't Range Comparable?"
    on 02/01/27, Dave <dlc-usenet@halibut.com> writes:

|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?

Items in ranges are comparable, but ranges themselves are not.  You
cannot define comparison between a range of integers and a range of
strings.

							matz.