How do you mean "when they are inspected"? If you do it then all functions which step through the keys would have to be fixed and some like *fold* and *map* could be very difficult to implement in an efficient manner. If you don't do it for all then it is pointless.
Robert On Monday, 13 February 2017 22:49:13 UTC+1, Eric Meadows-Jönsson wrote: > > Currently struct and map keys are in indeterminate order when they are > inspected. Due to implementation details in the VM maps that have <32 keys > are in term order but for larger maps and structs the order is random. > > I propose always sorting the map keys when they are inspected so that it's > easier to read and scan the results. > > -- > Eric Meadows-Jönsson > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/5e3f4e37-bb6c-4688-bb86-5d430e095726%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
