On 07/31/2014 09:40 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
The definition of hash function requires that its output depend only on its
input(s), so why can't it be pure?
For example, because it might actually be random on the first invocation
and cached later. :-)
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/java/lang/Object.java#l101
http://blogs.tedneward.com/CommentView,guid,eca26c5e-307c-4b7c-931b-2eaf5b176e98.aspx
(caution, broken script, didn't find a better source to quote quickly.)
