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

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Dennis Möhlmann <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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