Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> I think any implementation which tries to behave both like a list and a
> hashtable is going to have some inconsistencies when using ints as keys,
> so I actually prefer the approach of keeping the two separate.

Exactly, order shouldn't matter in a dictionary:  it's a set.  There are lists
if one needs order or you can always base a class on dict and replace
__setitem__ and __getitem__.

What matters in Python though is case and D is not the same as d. :P

PHP and Perl are full of inconsistencies.

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