Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:47:44 +0200
From: Hans Ginzel <h...@matfyz.cz>
To: Hans Ginzel <h...@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Access (ordered) dict by index; insert slice

Hello,

thank you for making dict ordered.
Is it planned to access key,value pair(s) by index? See 
https://stackoverflow.com/a/44687752/2556118 for example. Both for reading and 
(re)writing?
Is it planned to insert pair(s) on exact index? Or generally to slice? See 
splice() in Perl, https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/splice.html.

Use case: Represent database table metadata (columns). It is useful as to 
access columns both by name and by index as to insert column on specific 
position, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/alter-table.html, “ALTER 
TABLE ADD COLUMN [FIRST |AFTER col]” (consider default order or table storage 
size optimisation by aligning).

Thank you in advance,
Hans
PS1: Named tuples cannot be used, are immutable.
PS2: See 
https://metacpan.org/pod/perlref#Pseudo-hashes:-Using-an-array-as-a-hash
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