Re: [sc-users] Dictionary.keysDo

[Jeremy Rotsztain <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks james & dave for clarifying this.

the first few dictionaries i built appeared to be ordered. looks like 
i'm forced to find a workaround. oh well ....

jeremy

On 30-Apr-04, at 4:46 PM, James McCartney wrote:

> There is no order to objects stored in a dictionary. It is an 
> unordered container.
>
> On Apr 30, 2004, at 12:02 PM, jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > hello -
> >
> > i'm stumped by dictionary's keysDo method. i was under the impression 
> > that
> > the medhod would
> > sort through a manually created dictionary starting with the first 
> > item and
> > ending with the last.
> >
> > that seemed to be the case with most of the dictionaries that I'd 
> > created,
> > until I created this one:
> >
> > ~params = Dictionary[
> >  			('lfo' -> 2),
> >  			('width' -> 1),
> >  			('mix' -> 1)];
> > 		
> >
> > ~params.keysDo({ arg par, id;
> > 		
> > 			[ par, id].postln;
> > 		
> > 			
> > 		});
> >
> > [ mix, 0 ]
> > [ lfo, 1 ]
> > [ width, 2 ]
> >
> > looking at keysValuesArrayDo, i see no reason why the key order would 
> > be
> > scrambled. any ideas?
> >
> > jeremy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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