From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-09-04T18:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes and ordering


"James Britt" <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:41393AFC.4090001@neurogami.com...
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> >
> > I'm envisioning a data structure that has an order, but is otherwise (in
> > behavior, not implementation) like our current Hash.
> >
> > I don't want to go into detail about what I'm thinking at the moment.
> >
> > But I can see where my post was unclear or vague and would raise
> > very valid questions in your mind.
>
> Java may have such a thing now (it seems to have a Collection object for
> everything else), but I recall writing one for myself because the notion
> of an ordered hash is quite useful, mostly for reliable iteration.

What do you mean by "now"?  java.util.TreeMap is quite old (at least since
1.3).

    robert