Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Tom Anderson schrieb:

> Maybe we should call it a 'sequenced dictionary' to fit better with 
> pythonic terminology?

That's not such a bad idea. Note that it is called like that in the 
Python version of the "Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook":

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/hashes.html#AEN250

Anyway, I still favor the more common term "ordered dictionary".

-- Christoph