From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-06-24T16:46:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to order a hash based on its keys?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> 2011/6/23 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
>> I rather use specific types than Array and Hash since those make the
>> code more readable.  Also, this encourages more OOish programs where
>> you distribute functionality across classes.
>
> I know that my code is not very "ellegant" and does not follow Ruby's fashion :)
> But this code will not be exposed to users of a library. Instead this
> will be used internally by my application/library, which will expose
> decent API methods.

Still the readability argument applies.  Imagine you have to maintain
the code after a year not looking at it - or someone else has to
maintain it... :-)

Kind regards

robert

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