From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T20:09:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Does Hash Apparently Reorder Its Internal Representation And Other Associated Ponderings

Martin DeMello wrote:
> 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.

There are any number of ways to do this sort of thing.
But they all suffer from not having a convenient notation
for literals.


Hal