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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Sean Mickey <s...@seanmickey.com> wrote: > First, I hope this is the appropriate place for my comments / questions on a > specific isse. It seemed like adding a comment in JIRA would be too > heavyweight, so if that is the correct place for this, please let me know. > > Regarding LANG-411, the description mentions 2 parameters for each hash > operation: the first a parameter to hold the type instance to be hashed, the > second a hash multiplier. > > Shouldn't there also be a way to define a specific hash constant value as > well? Joshua Bloch refers to this value as the starting value for "result" > in his examples and the HashCodeBuilder code maintains an internal field > named: iTotal for this value. It doesn't seem to make sense to add a > parameter to the hashing operations for a starting hash constant value, but > it probably makes sense to add mutators that allow setting this value across > any given type. For example: setIntHashConstant, setBoolHashConstant, > setLongHashConstant, etc. Default values could be defined so that explicit > hash constants are not required. > > Interested for any feedback. Thanks - > Sean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
