From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-18T18:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Preserve insert order in a Hash

From: Me Me [mailto:emanuelef@tiscali.it] 
# I would like to know if it's possible to insert values in a Hash and
# then extract all of them in the same insertion order.

only in ruby 1.9

C:\ruby1.9\bin>irb.bat
> h={}
=> {}

> h[1]=1
=> 1

> h[2]=1
=> 1

> h[3]=1
=> 1

> h
=> {1=>1, 2=>1, 3=>1}

> h[1.5]=1
=> 1

> h
=> {1=>1, 2=>1, 3=>1, 1.5=>1}

> h[0]=1
=> 1

> h
=> {1=>1, 2=>1, 3=>1, 1.5=>1, 0=>1}

> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.0"