From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2002-07-16T01:54:22+09:00
Subject: Re: hey! where's #count? (clearing up degeneration)

ts wrote:

>>>>>>...
>>>>>>
>T> programmable purposes it is unordered.
>
> Well, try #each, #keys and #values and you'll see that the objects are
> given in the same order : this is (for me) important
>Guy Decoux
>
Be careful with that assumption.  I believe that as a hash expands it 
occasionally needs to re-hash it's keys, and that would alter the order. 
 I don't know that Ruby's hash works that way, but most of the ones I've 
encountered do.

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