From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T07:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ordered Hashes in 1.9?

David Flanagan wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Ordered Hashes in 1.9?"
>>     on Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:24:36 +0900, Michael Neumann 
>> <mneumann@ntecs.de> writes:
>>
>> |It really seems that 1.9 got ordered hashes by default. Can anyone 
>> |confirm my observations?
>>
>> Yes, it preserves order of keys inserted.
>>
>>                             matz.
> 
> Is this an implementation detail, or is it part of the specification?

A related question: what does the following output?

h1 = {1=>2, 3=>4}
h2 = {3=>4, 1=>2}

p(h1==h2)

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