SortedSet implements a Set that guarantees that it's element are yielded in sorted order (according to the return values of their #<=> methods) when iterating over them.
All elements that are added to a SortedSet must respond to the <=> method for comparison.
Also, all elements must be mutually comparable: el1
<=> el2
must not return nil
for any elements
el1
and el2
, else an ArgumentError will be raised when iterating
over the SortedSet.
Example
require "set"
set = SortedSet.new([2, 1, 5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 3, 3])
ary = []
set.each do |obj|
ary << obj
end
p ary # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
set2 = SortedSet.new([1, 2, "3"])
set2.each { |obj| } # => raises ArgumentError: comparison of Fixnum with String failed