On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 11:12:07 UTC, tcak wrote:
What is needed is to be able to bind a hash value to any block
with a name.
I've thought about this too in the past and asked on the forums
but I haven't gotten any response.
It is possible. The problem is easier in dynamic languages. See
for instance a the following solution in a specific Python
runtime here: http://pgbovine.net/incpy.html
`hashOf` is for AAs not for content digests.
I believe the only realistic solution to this problem is to
implement a specific pass in the D compiler that recursively
calculates hash-digests (hash-chains) for all the code and data
involved in a function call. It should probably only work for
pure functions. AFAICT, it is possible but it's far from easy to
get 100% correct :)
DMD pull requests should be very welcomed, at least by me ;)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain
