From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-07-15T18:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: hey! where's #count? (clearing up degeneration)

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 02:29, ts wrote:
>   An Hash is ordered, this is just that the order is difficult to
predict.

certanly it has order internally, but that order is not at all given to
control by the programmer. yes, it will always come out in the same
order, but there's no garuntee what that order will be, hence for all
programmable purposes it is unordered.

cheers,
transami

> >>>>> "T" == Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:
> 
> T> meaningless, since a Hash is unordered, and the components of a Hash,
> 
>   An Hash is ordered, this is just that the order is difficult to predict.
> 
>  Try to call #each many times, and you'll see that the (key, value) are
>  always given in the same order (if you don't modify the hash).
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
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