On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 5:48 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
The reason I chose hash-tables back in 2013 was that I wanted to an > unordered data structure to strictly comply with the JSON spec. > RFC 8259, the latest JSON RFC, clarifies this: JSON parsing libraries have been observed to differ as to whether or not they make the ordering of object members visible to calling software. Implementations whose behavior does not depend on member ordering will be interoperable in the sense that they will not be affected by these differences. So there is no *requirement* not to preserve order, there is simply no requirement to preserve it. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
