From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-09-04T11:33:04+09:00
Subject: Hashes and ordering

I've been wondering something today...

Do people test equality of hashes very often? I, for one,
do not.

For example, does anyone depend on these hashes being
equal?

   x = {1=>2, 3=>4}
   y = {3=>4, 1=>2}
   x == y            #  => true

Or does anyone have code that depends in some other way
on the fact that the ordering in a hash is NOT predictable?


Curiously,
Hal