From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T01:44:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash order bug?

On 25/07/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> The question came up during a lunch here at OSCON (with me, Jim
> Weirich, Pat Eyler, and a fellow named Nicolas whose last name I'm
> afraid I don't remember) as to whether making hashes ordered in a
> future Ruby would break any existing code.  I think the answer is no,
> which is kind of interesting considering what a major change it would
> be.  It's a case where the feature would be purely additive.

I think that would depend on whether {:a => 1, :b => 2} == {:b => 2,
:a => 1}. If that's the same, everything should be fine. If it's
different, I know that it would break a number of my tests, if nothing
else.

Paul.