From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T10:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: What's New and Shiny in Ruby 1.8.0?

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 07:17 pm, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>
> This would be particularly useful if the data items in the enumeration were
> instances of more complex objects. Then, you could do things like:
>
>    sorted = people.sort_by { |p| [p.last_name, p.first_name, p.salary] }
>
> I just love Ruby!

If you don't mind, I'm going to add this tiny example to the page.  This is 
incredibly readable and demonstrates a number of Ruby's brilliant features at 
once.

I've also just finished a section on Procs, StringIO, -run, and fixed the 
Class.new and Module.new section.  Just now starting on marshal_load, 
marshal_dump, String#[], String#to_i, and Array#zip.

Whew!  There's so much!

_why