Yes, my problem was with people then wanting to iterate over said hashmap, not with using it as a hashmap in the first place. I could have worded that better, t

Yes, my problem was with people then wanting to iterate over said hashmap, not with using it as a hashmap in the first place. I could have worded that better, thanks. I mean if you're going to want to iterate over it, you should probably be using an array instead.