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

• From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:56:18 -0400
• Message-ID: <7c2a12e20904140956m3e5b70d6xe83cd238d8c6eba1@mail.gmail.com>

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.)

Received on Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:56:18 UTC