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The perl method on Rakudo/MoarVM currently outputs has entries in a random
order:
% perl6-m -e'say { :a(10), :b(20), :c(30) }.perl'
{"c" => 30, "a" => 10, "b" => 20}
% perl6-m -e'say { :a(10), :b(20), :c(30) }.perl'
{"a" => 10, "b" => 20, "c" => 30}
JVM otoh, does seem to order consistantly:
% perl6-j -e'say { :a(10), :b(20), :c(30) }.perl'
{"a" => 10, "b" => 20, "c" => 30}
% perl6-j -e'say { :a(10), :b(20), :c(30) }.perl'
{"b" => 20, "c" => 30, "a" => 10}
S02 doesn't have an opinion on hash ordering -
http://design.perl6.org/S02.html#The_.perl_method
I'm in the habit of using the .perl method as part of the normal
development/debugging progress, but I find that the MoarVM behavior can be a
bit taxing in practice.
Could the MoarVM .perl method also order hash entries?
