From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T19:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Does Hash Apparently Reorder Its Internal Representation And Other Associated Ponderings

On 8/21/06, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> Sort of, but I liked the interface of Hash too much
> to abandon it.  So far, I am carrying along an array
> of keys in order of creation for the one place that
> I need it.  Otherwise, I have the beauty of the stock
> Hash interface at my disposal.

You can do this automatically (if you aren't already) by creating an
object that holds a hash and an array, defines []=, each and delete to
do the right thing, and delegates missing methods to the hash.

m.