On 8/21/06, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam / rogers.com> wrote: > I think what you are thinking of is a red black tree (or just a binary > tree, in general) and not a hash... No, people are thinking of an associative array or an association list as someone else called it in this thread. I'm not sure about r/b trees, but binary trees are most *definitely* not what is wanted since what is wanted is insertion order in most cases, not an arbitrary sorted order. > Honestly, complaining that hashes aren't ordered is like complaining > that rand() doesn't return the same number every time. Pray tell, what > made you think it should be ordered? That was an honest question, by the > way! You know enough about programming to come here and decree that this > is very weird yet you didn't already know what a hash is or how one works. > Very strange... PHP's "array" is an associative array allowing "hash"-like handling with an ordered iteration. That's probably the source of 99% of the reasons that people want it. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin / halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin / zieglers.ca