FWIW: I like that you can expressly opt in to ordered iteration in Java, by using LinkedHashSet (which is a subclass of HashSet which implements the interface Set): http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHashSet.html
On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:32 , John Tamplin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote: > Is this comparable with JS? Interop on the web is a harsh mistress. The > C-Python vs. IronPython vs. PyPy vs. etc. situation is more of a "porting > model" with one-way forks. > > Java seems comparable, in that compiled code is expected to run on different > JVMs. I'm not aware of any Java code that relies on a particular iteration > order where it is unspecified in the API. > > -- > John A. Tamplin > Software Engineer (GWT), Google > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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