> Tables are in APR, because were originally moved from Apache to APR before > APR-util existed. They should really move to apr-util. They should never > be removed from Apache. Tables are useful because they garuantee a > general order to the data, namely, the order you insert information into > the table. Hashes have a different use case.
Ummm, no, tables do not guarantee that -- arrays do. Tables were specfically created to be an abstract hash table, but the implementation remained simple because we never used them for large tables. ....Roy