On 12/6/2010 12:46 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 12/6/10 11:16 AM, TomF wrote:
Given that the semantics are virtually random, how could code depend
on this?
There are cases where you don't particularly care *what* order is given
as long as it is consistent. Let's say you want to make sure that two
lists have the same contents (which may mix types), but you don't care
about the order. You could just sort each list and then compare the
sorted lists. Before sets were added to the language, this was a fairly
common approach.
And indeed, code like this that has not been updated does break in 3.x.
to some people's annoyance. We really really cannot please everyone ;-).
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