From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T01:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On Feb 13, 2009, at 3:53 AM, William James wrote:

> James Coglan wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Your code happened to work by chance.
>>
>>
>> Granted. As I've said elsewhere, this is just my example of a
>> significant change in 1.8.7. I accept that no iteration order was
>> ever explicitly stated for 1.8, and a change like this is something
>> of a grey area in terms of whether it would be considered a backward
>> incompatibility.
>
> No, it's not a gray area.  Anyone who has a basic understanding of
> hash-tables doesn't even think about the iteration order.

I guess you haven't used Ruby 1.9.  :)

James Edward Gray II