From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-09-06T14:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: OK... :) question about hash and array literals

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I thought hash order would be ignored always for compares.
> Optional use of order is an interesting idea, although I want better
> looking API than
> 
> | {1=>2, 3=>4}.ordered != {3=>4, 1=>2}.ordered

How about { 1=>2, 3=>4 } !~ { 3=>4, 1=>2 }
          { 1=>2, 3=>4 } =~ { 1=>2, 3=>4 }

OTOH, that syntax might more profitably be reserved for pattern
matching, which would also be a nice thing to have.

martin