From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T04:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ordered/sorted hash

On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:57 PM, robertj wrote:

> hi daniel,
>
>>> hash.sort.each{ |e| puts "#{e[0]} => #{e[1]}" }
> this has the effect that clients of that hash
> need to know that they must order the hash +
> the interface for iteration has changed.
>
> instead of hash.each { |k, v| ...} you get hash.sort.each { |v| ...}
>
> in short your solution requires "sorting" to become part of
> the "official" interface of my hash.

You could easily wrap a Hash and provide an each() that sorted before  
yielding.

James Edward Gray II