From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T04:10:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing ==,>,<, etc

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From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Changing ==,>,<, etc


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> > ># 1 < any(1,2,3)
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> > What you want can be done with the any? method for arrays.
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> > [1, 2, 3].any? { |e| 1 < e }
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> But the syntax "1 < any(1,2,3)" is very readable.

I've always favored an "in" operator as in Pascal
or (I think) Python. It would call include? just
as for/in calls each:

  1 in [1,2,3]  # means [1,2,3].include? 1

Hal

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