[whatwg] native ordered dictionary data type in web storage draft

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 09:56:18 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Patrick Mueller
<pmuellr at muellerware.org> wrote:
> This is the first time I've seen the requirement for such a beast.  You can
> understand the desire for it, given the context, but still.  Does anything
> else in JavaScript make use of such a data structure?

It says that JavaScript should just use Object.  Isn't that,
essentially, an ordered dictionary?

(My knowledge of PHP is better than my JavaScript -- in PHP, the
*only* native array type is an ordered dictionary.)



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