From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-14T02:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: sorting with the Swartzian transform

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: sorting with the Swartzian transform


> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> 
> > Hello Martin,
> >
> > Sunday, January 12, 2003, 11:48:27 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > MD> class Array
> > MD>   def ssort(&block)
> > MD>     map {{|i| [&block.call(i), i]}\
> > MD>     .sort {|a,b| a[0] <=> b[0]}\
> >
> > just ".sort" will be faster (in most cases :)
> 
> Yes, but it does something different.  '.sort' sorts in ASCIIbetical
> order (so 10 comes before 2) , whereas <=> is a numerical sort.

What are you talking about? I think you're
confused, but if not, please illustrate
with code.

Hal