From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T00:17:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ordered hash ?

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:37:34 +0900, Nikolai Weibull
> <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
>> * itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> [Dec 02, 2004 14:00]:
>>> Is there a pure-ruby ordered hash? I'm looking for something that will
         [...]
>> Having an ordered Hash is like saying that arrays should be indexed by
>> strings--it's simply not what they are meant to be.
>
> Be that as it may, it is still necessary to have an insertion-ordered
> hash-like object.

Is anyone friendly with the Lua crowd?  Could they donate us a
table? :-)  http://www.lua.org/pil/11.html

         Hugh