On Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:46:03 Ali Çehreli wrote: > On 10/11/2012 10:13 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > (arguably no one should really be using hash_t or equals_t at this > > point, but > > > I don't know if they're ever going to actually go away). > > I've been assuming that they were relatively newer aliases. Is it > recommended to use size_t and bool instead?
They're old. equals_t was done because D1 uses (used?) int for opEquals instead of bool. I don't know if there was ever a good reason for hash_t to exist. I don't believe that TDPL uses either, and I believe that they've been mostly removed from druntime and Phobos (if they haven't been entirely removed yet, they will be, aside from the aliases themselves). So, I would definitely recommend not using equals_t or hash_t, but while some of us are definitely looking to get rid of them entirely, I suspect that they'll be around semi-permanently just to preserve backwards compatibility. - Jonathan M Davis
