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Feature #16992

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Sets: officially ordered

Added by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) almost 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:98967]

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Officially, set elements have uncertain order. This predades when Hash started being ordered (Ruby 1.9.0, Xmas 2007). Sets have since been de-facto insertion-ordered. FYI, in those 13 years, there have been about 70 commits to lib/set.rb.

I have the impression that a non-negligible amount of code in the wild rely on sets being ordered, at least under most circumstances. I feel that this should be officialized.

If sets are truly unordered, then why do we hesitate to make an optimization of & and |: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15281

See also: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14069


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