Equality of Recursive Structures [Was: Closure Compiler in 3.9 ?]

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri May 11 19:40:02 UTC 2007


Well my squeak 2.5 image of Aug 6th 1999 has

LookupKey>>hash
	^ key hash

So when and why did it change?


On May 11, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> Cue another long discussion about hashing.
>>
>> Just what do you believe the hash value should be based on?
>
> What about the key only?
>
> I quickly had a look at some other Smalltalk implementations (VW,
> Dolphin, Ambrai) they all use the key for hashing only.
>
> Lukas
>
> --  
> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>

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