On 22.01.2014, at 03:31, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The real culprit IMHO is that javascript and the json spec neglected the >> order in the first place. JSON serialization is inherently ordered… > > Actually, as noted in [1], JavaScript does not neglect but explicity states, > that there is no order at all. JSON follows suit. That's what I meant: they neglected the usefulness of an ordered map, and thus discarded it right away. Most likely because the original implementation did not have an ordered map implementation available and everything else followed from there. </rant> ;) Cheers, Alex
