Flex Dictionary: Order

Question

Does Flex Dictionary maintain the order of its elements?

Answer 1

The Dictionary maintains no order of items and does not provide information about the number of elements contained.

U can access it as any other key-value structure

Answer 2

From http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=10_Lists_of_data_4.html

Associative arrays are unordered collections of key and value pairs. Your code should not expect the keys of an associative array to be in a specific order.