From: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@...>
Date: 2007-04-09T20:59:16+09:00
Subject: Re:

On 4/9/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> well, actually, I knew this part about hashes being unordered.
> Which, is why I asked.
> I was just wondering if there was some kind of implicit sort
> occurring.

by right, u shouldnt really care, since it is, after all, a hash (but
of course we all all curious animals... ;))

I would probably say the same thing as Robert - there is no "standard"
here, and it is all up to the interpreter to do as it wishes.

If u really wish to sort, u could use use '.sort', or '.sort_by'

{5=>:a, 7=>:a, 2=>:a}.sort
{:z=>42, :d=>43, :c=>44}.sort_by {|a| a[0].to_s}

although of course, this also has the effect of transforming the hash
into an array....


-jf

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