From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T15:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterating a changing Hash under 1.9.1

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Iterating a changing Hash under 1.9.1"
>     on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:28:07 +0900, Tom Link <micathom@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> |It shouldn't go into an infinite loop though. IMHO an exception
> |("modification during iteration" or something like that) would be
> |nice.
> 
> Do you think speed decrease for normal case is acceptable?
> 
> 							matz.

It's also worrying that there is no clear definition of "during 
iteration", bearing in mind that any method which yields is an iterator, 
of sorts. Or would this only apply to a fixed set of core methods?

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