Re: [Vala] foreach / Gee.Tree/HashMap

[Dennis Möhlmann <in dev nyda info>]

Hello,

thank you for the explanation. Pretty bad pitfall though.

Regards,
  Dennis

Am 21.08.2012 08:41, schrieb Luca Bruno:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Dennis Möhlmann <in dev nyda info
> <mailto:in dev nyda info>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I was running into an issue with Gee Maps and was wondering if this is
>     intended behaviour. Here's a minimal sample:
>
>     var map = new HashMap<int, string>();
>     map[1] = "first";
>     map[2] = "second";
>
>     foreach (var value in map) {
>         stdout.printf((value ?? "null") + "\n");
>     }
>
>  
>
>     [...]
>
>  
>
>     "Gaps" in the map-keys produce similar issues. Looks like a bug to me,
>     but I thought I'd ask here first.
>
>
> That's because HashMap has no iterator() method, then vala uses the
> size()/get() iterator mode. It's intended to work like that but
> absolutely counter intuitive.
>
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