From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T08:12:30+09:00
Subject: Re: hash.keys and hash.values

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:31:05AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
> They'll certainly be the same order. It would be crazy otherwise.

Not necessarily.  It could be that, when calling on them separately,
they are accessed in a different order -- and only when using one to
reference the other do their associations come to light.  It's
conceivable where there might come a time when someone decides, for
implementation reasons, that this might be a better way to handle it.
It's still less surprising for them to be accessed in the same order,
though, so it's nice that it's implemented this way in absence of a
compelling reason to do otherwise.


> 
> This perhaps should be mentioned somewhere, but maybe people
> take it for granted.

I suspect people don't even get as far as taking it for granted, since
they probably tend to access one from the other in almost all cases.

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