[erlang-questions] map elements in defined order

[José Valim]

> Our "sister language" Go *randomizes* iteration order on its maps. This is
> to force programmers into not relying on the map order at all, even if it
> happens to be ordered right now. This opens up implementations in the
> future.
>

Randomizing how elements are stored/hashed is also useful to avoid hash
collision attacks.
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