ISSUE-98: Does Graph.toArray() have a deterministic order?

Graph.toArray() list order

Does Graph.toArray() have a deterministic order?

State:

POSTPONED

Product:

RDFa 1.1 API

Raised by:

Manu Sporny

Opened on:

2011-07-10

Description:

Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
The ECMAScript spec has always said that when enumerating properties of objects, the order is undefined. (Properties are conceptually an unordered set.) In practice, implementations do use a particular order (insertion order, more or less) and this has required reverse-engineering between browsers because scripts rely on that order. The same thing will happen with Graph.toArray if it becomes widely deployed.

--------

The Working Group should:

1. Determine if Graph.toArray() should have a deterministic order.
2. Determinine what the deterministic order should be.

Related Actions Items:

No related actions

Related emails:

1. Telecon Agenda - August 11th 2011, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2011-08-09)
2. Possible regrets Re: Telecon Agenda - July 28th 2011, 1400 UTC (from Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl on 2011-07-28)
3. Re: Telecon Agenda - July 28th 2011, 1400 UTC (from gregg@kellogg-assoc.com on 2011-07-27)
4. Telecon Agenda - July 28th 2011, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2011-07-26)
5. Telecon Agenda - July 21st 2011, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2011-07-18)
6. Re: Telecon Agenda - July 14th 2011, 1400 UTC (from shane@aptest.com on 2011-07-14)
7. Re: Telecon Agenda - July 14th 2011, 1400 UTC (from scorlosquet@gmail.com on 2011-07-14)
8. Telecon Agenda - July 14th 2011, 1400 UTC (from msporny@digitalbazaar.com on 2011-07-12)
9. ISSUE-98 (Graph.toArray() list order): Does Graph.toArray() have a deterministic order? [RDFa 1.1 API] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-10)

Related notes:

No additional notes.

Display change log