"Brian F. Feldman" <green / FreeBSD.org> writes:

> So it's done to "discourage" people from doing it?  E.g. currently the best 
> way to compare version numbers would be:
> 
> irb(main):003:0> ([1, 6, 2] <=> [1, 4, 3]) == 1

When we get around to adding versioning, I hope we'll have a version
class with comparison semantics.

Dave