From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T03:41:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing ==,>,<, etc


On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Nathan Weston wrote:

> [snip]
> And all was well. But then I hit a snag:
> # 1 < any(1,2,3)
> ERR: (eval):1:in `<': Disjunction can't be coerced into Fixnum
>
> [snip some very interesting questions I intend to think about.]

What you want can be done with the any? method for arrays.

[1, 2, 3].any? { |e| 1 < e }

There's also an all? method.

The following container (or container-like) classes have both the any? 
and all? methods: Array, Hash, Range, String, Set.

Regards,

Mark