On Mon, 26 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

> It doesn't, because Array doesn't have any requirement to be sorted.

it does not - but it certainly can be.  i've often wondered why Array does not
carry an internal @sorted flag - which could be used as a hint for certain
operations - like Array#include?

-a
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