Ordered dict by default

Bryan Olson fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Thu Feb 5 12:31:56 EST 2009


MRAB wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com writes:
>>> Now Ruby dicts are ordered by default:
>>> http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-hash/
>>
>> Maybe I didn't read that carefully enough, but it looks like "ordered"
>> means the dict records come out in the same order you inserted them
>> in.  That is if you insert B,A,D,C in that order, you get them out in
>> that order.  I would have thought an ordered dict meant you get A,B,C,D,
>> which seems a lot more useful.
>>
> [snip]
> You're confusing "ordered" with "sorted"! :-)

He's really not.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_set

> A list is an ordered collection, for example.

True.


-- 
--Bryan



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