That orderedness of the hash only breaks when you use print @a for which there is no direct substitute on the hash side

values %h is the direct equivalent of @a. (And 0..$#a is a close equivalent to keys %h, but this equivalence isn't as close as the equivalence between values %h and @a.)

The order of the values returned is (indirectly) intentionally rather hard to predict, quite the opposite of many meanings of "sorted". But I'm not particularly interested in discussing how to split hairs in the definition of "sorted" or even "ordered" nor to split hairs in discussing whether the resulting definition(s) apply to Perl hashes. :)

- tye        

In reply to Re^6: What makes an array sorted and a hash unsorted? (values) by tye
in thread What makes an array sorted and a hash unsorted? by ikegami

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