From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2004-03-04T05:09:49+09:00
Subject: Re: why are Hashes so unsorted? what's your solution?

David Garamond wrote:
> Most language don't guarantee insert order for hash, in fact IIRC some 
> deliberately randomize it. 

They /all/ do, or else they're calling something a "hash" that ain't.

They're /called/ "hashes" (and have been since the days of vacuum-tube 
mainframes) /because/ the process "makes a hash of" the ordering.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"