Re: [tlug] Are ordered hashes useful?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Simon Cozens writes:
 > On 12/02/2011 06:42, Jun-Dai Bates-Kobashigawa wrote:
 > > The most common use case for a bundle of key/value pairs is simply as a
 > > dictionary
 > 
 > I would contend that this is the *least* common use case.
 > 
 > In fact, I have done:
 > http://www.perl.com/pub/2006/11/02/all-about-hashes.html

But most of the examples you give there (eg, histogram) are really
special cases of dictionary.  (I didn't look that closely, but the
ones I noticed stood out that way.)