On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Web developers find and exploit many de-facto standards. Enumeration order > being insertion order for non-arrays at least, if not for all objects > (arrays tend to be populated in index order), is old as the hills and web > content depends on it, as far as I can tell. I'll do some experiments to try > to get data on this. > Aside from the JSON example of populating a dropdown list given (which I will agree is a real if contrived use case), there has been a lot of talk of "thousands of web developers" depending on preserving insertion order, but not one concrete example -- do you have one? -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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