I want to make sure I understand the docs. <Here> says that Map preserves the order of elements inse...

# getting-started

[Gilberto Diaz]

I want to make sure I understand the docs. Here says that Map preserves the order of elements insertion. What I understand is that when I use mapOf(…) or mutableMapOf(…), the order in which elements are inserted are preserved. Is that a correct statement?

[Kamil Kalisz]

well Map interface is not preserving order. One of implementation (LinkedHashMap) is preserving order (and it’s default one). Personally when I need ordering I’m using LinkedHaspMap explicitly to show my intentions in source code and to guarantee sorting.
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[Gilberto Diaz]

But that’s not what the docs stated.

The default implementation of Map – LinkedHashMap – preserves the order of elements insertion when iterating the map. In turn, an alternative implementation – HashMap – says nothing about the elements order.