Re: KL_HASH_FUNCTION

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Given such classes, I don't see the need for `set_hash_function' in
> DS_HASH_TABLE. It seems to me that it is only muddying the waters to
> have a class that is specific to HASHABLE, and then not use that property.

More precisely, `hash_function' was initially introduced because
the feature `hash_code' of DOUBLE is very bad. So it was more
a workaround than a new functionality.

And then, it was used to provide case-insensitive hash codes for
strings.

It would be indeed better (and more reusable) to have different
classes.

-- 
Eric Bezault
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