Ensure that Parameters and Mu instances are always ordered alphabetically #998
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In the past, there have been several issues with parameters not being ordered, e.g. #977. With this PR all
Parameters
andMu
instances will always be ordered alphabetically.The implementation relies on Python >= 3.7 and CPython >= 3.6 dicts being insertion ordered.
Obviously this may have some impact on performance. (Creating a
Frozendict(b=3, a=2)
takes 1.5 microseconds on my machine whereas creating aSortedFrozenDict(b=3, a=2)
takes 2.5 microseconds.) But I would assume that this is negligible in most cases, and avoiding subtle bugs due to invalid implicit assumptions seems more important.