From: Nobuyoshi Nakada Date: 2008-04-02T10:39:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Hash insertion order preservation in ruby1.9 Hi, At Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:55:12 +0900, Joachim (München) wrote in [ruby-talk:296442]: > (4) Once hashes are ordered, new use cases will be found, and > new methods will become useful. I would like to propose the following > new instance methods > Hash#insert_before( existing_key, other_hash ) > Hash#insert_after( existing_key, other_hash ) > and possibly also > Hash#insert_before( existing_key, key, value ) > Hash#insert_after( existing_key, key, value ) > to insert new items at well defined locations. My use case, as I > said before, is a hash which is dumped into human-readable yaml. What do you expect on conflicts? -- Nobu Nakada