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Hashtbl.remove legal within Hashtbl.iter for the same hash table?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Florent Monnier <fmonnier@l...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Hashtbl.remove legal within Hashtbl.iter for the same hash table?

> Hatables are arrays of associative lists. When you are iterating over
> them removing any element you have already visited should be ok.
> Removing elements you haven't visited yet could cause you to encounter
> them anyhow.

which means that it is dependent to the order in which the content is itered,
while the manual says :
"The order in which the bindings are passed to f is unspecified."