From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-08-13T10:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: PATCH to make internal Hash class retain order...

On 8/12/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

> Well, if it were another class, then you would lose the order
> information before you ever got into that class, right?
>
> hash = {a=>1, b=>2, c=>3}
>
> ordered = OrderedHash.new(hash)   # Oops -- too late

The case of initializing with a hash is problematical, but

   OrderedHash[a, 1, b, 2, c, 3]

could work if you want control the order on initialization.

And OrderedHash.new(hash) or
OrderedHash[hash]

could be defined to set the order to hash.keys

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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