Hi Guys,

I don't work for Instantiations, so this decision isn't mine to make.  That said, I have to agree with their desire to
be cautious.  There is no up side to them to change this and even though the down side should be small, there is no real
way of knowing how big or small it is.

Lou

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:32:09 -0600, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Isn't this extremely simple to fix?
>>
>> #= is implemented in terms of start, step, and last.
>>
>> So why not implement #hash as
>>
>> ^(start hash bitXor: step hash) bitXor: self last hash
>>
>> Then in the postscript do a
>>
>> HashedCollection rehashAll
>>
>> and that should be it, right?
>>
>> I did a quick check using
>>
>> Dictionary allInstances select: [ :dict | dict keys anySatisfy: #isInterval]
>>
>> and the system seems fine after that.
>
>You forgot about the universe that lies beyond the fringes of the
>image.  There be persistent data files out there.  And users.
>Possibly with systems that rely on Interval>>#hash.
>
>But since most applications don't use non-Integer based Intervals
>(since Interval doesn't really support them, by design, I guess),
>there's no reason whatsoever to decimate the universe when Eliot's
>simply fixes the corner case that no one is using anyway.
>
>+1 to Eliots suggestion to fix Interval>>#hash.
>
> - Chris
>
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