[Seaside-dev] note on using hash of an object's class....

[Dale Henrichs]

On 10/11/2010 11:37 AM, Dale Henrichs wrote:
> I've just noticed that in GRSmallDictionary>>hash, the hash of the class
> is used for calculating the object's hash and I just wanted to point out
> that that is not portable (at least relative to GemStone).
>
> In GemStone there is the notion of class histories, which means that
> there are multiple versions of a class which means that the hash of a
> class cannot be counted on to be constant for a given class, which means
> that it shouldn't be used in hashes...
>
> Dale
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Check that ... it looks like GRSmallDictionary>>hash has been removed in 
a later version...

Doesn't change the fact that using a classes hash is not portable to 
GemStone:)

Dale