From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2003-05-19T16:32:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary #20159-20200

In article <3EC868DD.9030904@path.berkeley.edu>,
  Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> How about using class.name as a fallback, so that Floats and Integers 
> get sorted together?
>
>    p [1, "1", 1.5, 2].sort { |x, y|
>      begin
>        x <=> y
>      rescue NoMethodError
>        x.class.name <=> y.class.name
>      end
>    }

Do you think y has <=> even if x has no <=> ?

This is another reason for why the ordering by object_id is better.

However I agree that the ordering by object_id is not intuitive.  So
it may not Ruby way :-)
-- 
Tanaka Akira