From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T06:18:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash insertion order preservation in ruby1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: Hash insertion order preservation in ruby1.9"
    on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:55:12 +0900, Joachim (München) <wuttke1@web.de> writes:

|I am glad to see that ruby1.9.0 preserves hash insertion order.
|It will finally allow me to generate human-readable yaml dumps
|without ugly workarounds.
|
|Some questions:
|
|(1) Can I rely upon hash insertion order preservation as an approved
|new feature of Ruby, without any risk that it may get lost again in
|future releases ?

For CRuby, yes.  For Ruby the language, we have to make up consensus
with other implementations.

							matz.