Re: dictionary questions

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, David Flanagan wrote:
>
> 2) On the other hand, why do dictionary members need an ordering at all?  
> §3.4 forbids duplicate member names, and doesn't allow dictionaries to 
> shadow or redefine the members they inherit.  So I can't see anywhere 
> that the ordering matters.  It would simplify the algorithms in §4.2.17 
> to remove the ordering altogether.

We might not need ordering, but it's important that anywhere were an order 
can be observed (e.g. for-in loop in JS) every UA have the same order.

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