It might change - but I suspect this will not happen before Perl6 arrives. The docs (or the camel book, I forget) explicitly say that the ONLY thing you can count on as far as hash-ordering goes, is that the ordering of keys, values and each on a hash will be identical. - The changes you suggest will break that.

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