From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-08T03:12:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8779] Re: No :<, :>, etc. methods for Array

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:8774] No :<, :>, etc. methods for Array"
    on 01/01/07, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|So, why not include Comparable in Array by default?  It shouldn't have any 
|bad side-effects, and it makes sense that if Array implements :<=>, it 
|should then include Comparable.

Because arrays are not always comparable.  `sort', `min', and `max' in
Enumerable are the best compromise I could made.

							matz.