From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T05:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Hash elements in sorted order?

Markus wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 12:14, Chris wrote:
> 
>>>There has been some discussion going on whether Ruby's Hash should be 
>>>sorted by default on this list recently.
>>>
>>
>>I would vote in favor of it.
> 
> 
>      I'd vote against, for the following reasons.
> 
>      1. Every time it comes up the thread goes quite a while before the
>         advocates realize that they aren't all assuming the same sorting
>         order.  Some are thinking "sorted by key (obviously)" while
>         others are thinking "sorted by order of insertion (obviously)"
>         and still others are thinking "sorted by value" or "sorted by
>         some arbitrary key so long as it's consistent," etc.

Let's distinguis between "sorted" and "ordered." If it's ordered, you
can sort it however you like.


Hal