From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T02:44:27+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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> What do you mean with "Hash ordering"?
> An order for Hash instances? Hash doesn't define a <=> method.
> Or iteration order of Hash elements? That wasn't defined
> in 1.8.6 (I don't know if it is in 1.8.7).



In 1.8.6, iteration order would be the same as the order that the keys
appear in the source. To work with 1.8.7, you need to create an empty hash
and add keys one by one rather than putting them all in a hash literal (see
the patch).

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