At 12:40 PM -0500 1/29/03, Aaron Sherman wrote:
Just to nip this one in the bud...Elements of a has ARE ordered, just not the way you may expect.
If people start assuming that there's *any* ordering to hashes, I promise I *will* make sure that parrot's external hash class starts returning keys and values in random order.
Hashes have no guarantee of ordering, and perl 5 (as Nick demonstrated) delivers on that lack of guarantee.
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