Tutorial by Examples: comparable

Comparable is one of the most popular modules in Ruby. Its purpose is to provide with convenience comparison methods. To use it, you have to include Comparable and define the space-ship operator (<=>): class Rectangle include Comparable def initialize(a, b) @a = a @b = b ...

Comparable types are primitive types that can be compared using comparison operators from Basics module, like: (<), (>), (<=), (>=), max, min, compare Comparable types in Elm are Int, Float, Time, Char, String, and tuples or lists of comparable types. In documentation or type definitio...

Say we are working on a class representing a Person by their first and last names. We have created a basic class to do this and implemented proper equals and hashCode methods. public class Person { private final String lastName; //invariant - nonnull private final String firstName; //in...

There are two Collections.sort() methods: One that takes a List<T> as a parameter where T must implement Comparable and override the compareTo() method that determines sort order. One that takes a List and a Comparator as the arguments, where the Comparator determines the sort order. ...

Interfaces can seem abstract until you seem them in practice. The IComparable and IComparable<T> are great examples of why interfaces can be helpful to us. Let's say that in a program for a online store, we have a variety of items you can buy. Each item has a name, an ID number, and a price. ...