James Graham wrote:
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Mueller
<pmue...@muellerware.org> wrote:
This is the first time I've seen the requirement for such a beast.
You can
understand the desire for it, given the context, but still. Does
anything
else in JavaScript make use of such a data structure?
It says that JavaScript should just use Object. Isn't that,
essentially, an ordered dictionary?
Yes. Indeed there are compatibility requirements for the ordering of
ordinary user-created Object Objects in web browser implementations; the
order of enumeration must be the same as the order of insertion of the
properties.
Interesting. I guess this is a "JavaScript in web browser
implementation" difference from the "JavaScript spec". Following the
links in jresig's blog post
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-in-chrome/
in the "for loop order" section.
Still doesn't seem like it makes sense to go ahead and build
dependencies on this (unfortunate, IMO) behavior.
--
Patrick Mueller
