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Regarding the ordering, you can navigate hash tables in other languages similarly though, can't you?
by Minor49er 5y ago
Regarding the ordering, you can navigate hash tables in other languages similarly though, can't you?
- theonething 5y agoYes, e.g. in Ruby since 1.9, hash order is guaranteed.
- JodieBenitez 5y agoSame in Python since 3.6 (2016)
- vegai_ 5y agoAlthough the changes doc[1] states that dicts being ordered is an implementation detail that shouldn't be relied on. Nobody does of course ;) [1] https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html#new-dict-implementation https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html#new-dict-imple...
- warvariuc 5y agoAs of Python 3.7, this is no longer an implementation detail and instead becomes a language feature.
- ilyash 5y agoYep. In Next Generation Shell for example. At the time that the language was created, around 2013, it was clear to me (author of the language) that ordered traversal is beneficial and outweighs the downsides (memory usage).