From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T01:01:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23673] Re: [Bug #1545] Patches for the Hash Documentation

Excerpts from Run Paint Run Run's message of Tue Jun 02 04:22:37 +0300 2009:
> 
> It was my impression that hashes preserving insertion order was
> considered a feature, as opposed to an implementation detail, so we
> probably need clarification on this point.

And my distinct impression that this is an implementation
detail (although it definitely will not be so de facto.)
The NEWS file does not mention either direction. I will
search the list archives unless someone chimes in before
that.

> Regardless, even if new wording is not added to describe the new
> ordering, do we agree that we cannot continue to describe "the order
> in which you traverse a hash" as "arbitrary" and "generally
> not...in...insertion order."? :-)

If the traversal order is an implementation detail, then it
must remain something to that effect, if certainly not that
exact phrasing.


Eero
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