> But then sometimes you'd *want* hashing to be based on the > content.
OK, I'll bite -- when would you want this behavior? This behavior means that once you change the contents, the hash value would become irretrievable unless you restored the contents of the key. (Is this useful in functional programming?) =============================================== Mark Leighton Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomson multimedia, Inc. Indianapolis IN "We have tamed lightning and used it to teach sand to think"