You cannot use hash to generate unique IDs. Still this is a bug and a
JIRA ticket has already been filed -
http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJS-962

David

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Feng Xue <[email protected]> wrote:
> These days, I was trying to utilize function hash in clojure/clojurescript to 
> generate unique id, but it turns out this function has very strange behaviour 
> to empty vector parsed from read-string in cljs with in clj.
>
> In clojure, hash function return -2017569654 for empty vector and the one 
> parsed from read-string
>
> user=> (hash [])
> -2017569654
> user=> (hash (read-string "[]"))
> -2017569654
>
> However, in cljs, (hash []) returns surprisingly 0. And [] are also equal to 
> (read-string "[]").
>
> cljs.user=> (hash (cljs.reader/read-string "[]"))
> -2017569654
>
> cljs.user=> (hash [])
> 0
>
> cljs.user=> (= [] (cljs.reader/read-string "[]"))
> true
>
> Does any one know the reason of it and how to solve it in cljs?
>
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