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o:RDoc::Markup::Paragraph;[I"BThe Comparable mixin is used by classes whose objects may be ;TI"Cordered. The class must define the <code><=></code> operator, ;TI"Ewhich compares the receiver against another object, returning a ;TI"Jvalue less than 0, returning 0, or returning a value greater than 0, ;TI"?depending on whether the receiver is less than, equal to, ;TI"Bor greater than the other object. If the other object is not ;TI"Hcomparable then the <code><=></code> operator should return +nil+. ;TI"DComparable uses <code><=></code> to implement the conventional ;TI"<comparison operators (<code><</code>, <code><=</code>, ;TI"C<code>==</code>, <code>>=</code>, and <code>></code>) and the ;TI""method <code>between?</code>.;To:RDoc::Markup::BlankLine�o:RDoc::Markup::Verbatim;[ I"class StringSorter
;TI"  include Comparable
;TI"
;TI"  attr :str
;TI"  def <=>(other)
;TI"%    str.size <=> other.str.size
;TI"  end
;TI"
;TI"  def initialize(str)
;TI"    @str = str
;TI"  end
;TI"
;TI"  def inspect
;TI"    @str
;TI"  end
;TI"	end
;TI"
;TI" s1 = StringSorter.new("Z")
;TI"!s2 = StringSorter.new("YY")
;TI""s3 = StringSorter.new("XXX")
;TI"#s4 = StringSorter.new("WWWW")
;TI"$s5 = StringSorter.new("VVVVV")
;TI"
;TI",s1 < s2                       #=> true
;TI"-s4.between?(s1, s3)           #=> false
;TI",s4.between?(s3, s5)           #=> true
;TI"A[ s3, s2, s5, s4, s1 ].sort   #=> [Z, YY, XXX, WWWW, VVVVV]
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