On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 14:53:52 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Among the CppCon 2014 slide packs there is this nice one:
"Types Don't Know #", by Howard Hinnant:
https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014/tree/master/Presentations/Types%20Don%27t%20Know%20%23%20-%20Howard%20Hinnant%20-%20CppCon%202014
It shows a nice idea to perform transitive hashing in a
flexible and efficient way. Perhaps the idea can be used in D
too. It suggests the introduction of a hashAppend standard
method.
Bye,
bearophile
Funny thing is that as soon as you have to combine hashes in C++
atm you realize that current way is broken and the way HH
proposes is kindof obvious correct design.
