On 15/06/10 15:50, Andrea Aime wrote: > Developer depending on hashmap order -> chaos > It's not the fault of poor hashmap that developers use it in a number > of places where it's unnecessary if not even harmful.
But the poor developers cannot know if they are getting a HashMap if they are a module consumer and use, for example: Map<String, String> getNamespaceSchemaLocationMap(); Is iteration over these namespaces stable across platforms? If we add one namespace is their order jumbled? The module implementor who allows an instance of HashMap to be exposed has exposed the iteration order of the HashMap to an unsuspecting module user. I have nothing against HashMaps that are kept well hidden, but HashMaps allowed to leak out of confinement have an unerring ability to make program behaviour vary across platforms. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> Software Engineering Team Leader CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
