From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T01:13:03+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
>  Sometime after that discussion, Matz, who I know has much more than a
>> basic
>> understanding of hash-tables, decided that, yes,
>> defining the iteration order of Ruby hashes to  be by insertion order, and
>> that this was easily done with minimal impact to performance/space
>> requirements by linking buckets in the internal hash table used to
>> IMPLEMENT
>> Hash, and made this change in Ruby 1.9, which has been backported to Ruby
>> 1.8.7.
>>
>
> Hashes aren't ordered in 1.8.7, though.
>

Which makes this part of the thread rather moot, doesn't it?!

Thanks for pointing that out.
-- 
Rick DeNatale

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