On Saturday, July 14, 2001, at 08:58 , Steven Lembark wrote:

> Other advantage to hashes:  non-numeric (don't see a way for
> bitfields to handle strings gracefully).

You can use bitfields with non-numeric set members by 
generating, um, hash values for them. :-)

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Craig S. Cottingham
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ID=0xA2FFBE41, fingerprint=6AA8 2E28 2404 8A95 B8FC 7EFC 136F 
0CEF A2FF BE41

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