From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T23:58:43+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

Le 12 f�vrier � 15:25, Yossef Mendelssohn a �crit :

> I mean, these are *strings*, not anything special. They just happen 
> to contain a certain pattern of characters.

Any Ruby string can become special :

>> RUBY_VERSION = RUBY_VERSION.dup
(irb):5: warning: already initialized constant RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"
>> class <<RUBY_VERSION ; def <=>(b)
>>    self.split(/\./).collect { |x| x.to_i } <=> b.split(/\./).collect { |x| x.to_i }
>>    end ; end
=> nil
>> RUBY_VERSION.freeze
=> "1.8.6"
>> RUBY_VERSION < '1.8.10'
=> true

But not '1.8.10' > RUBY_VERSION, alas !

:)

Fred
-- 
The above also applies to "true" and "false" tests: there can be no
absolute truth, only subjective reality as perceived from an
existentialist paradigm.
                      (Tanuki in the SDM, on politically-correct coding)