But then how do you differentiate an Association that appears in multiple 
different places with several Associations that simply have the same keys?


>From: "Lukas Renggli" <renggli at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Equality of Recursive Structures [Was: Closure Compiler in 
>3.9?]
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 21:10:46 +0200
>
>>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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