Bug #10125: Array#sort and #sort! documentation issue

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: zzak (zzak _)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.1.2
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN

[maxtruc (Maxime Réty)]

The documentation about the values that should be returned by the block is backwards.

a <=> b will return -1 if a is lower than b, i.e. b follows a (in the sorted array).
a <=> b will return 1 if a is greater than b, i.e. a follows b (in the sorted array).

Using the "follows" verbal form might not be the best choice here, but I'd rather let a native english speaker rephrase it if needed.

This part of the documentation is backwards since the 2.0.0 release (commit 53b61ccb).

Thanks.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[ayumin (Ayumu AIZAWA)]

• Related to Bug #9989: Docs give wrong information for sort block return values added

[stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)]

Closing, fixed with r51859.

[stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed