From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-22T07:27:30+09:00
Subject: Re: A use case for an ordered hash

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

>
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> Which, as has been shown can be provided without changes to the base
>> specification/implementation of Ruby.
>
> A ordered hash implementation in the standard library would be better
> than nothing.  Similar to the way that Set is not in Core but is in
> the standard library.
>
> A literal syntax would be a bonus but of course would require a change
> to core.

not if

   require 'orderedhash'

__replaces__ the builtin Hash

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