From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T11:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: hash.keys and hash.values

On 8/13/06, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> 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.

They would be the same order so long as no changes have been made to
the internal hash table. ;) So, "yes unless you modify the hash or
you're in threaded code which might modify the hash."

-austin
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