On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:20 AM, bearophile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this page: > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/arrays.html#associative > regarding the hashing protocol it says that structs need: > uint toHash(); > While classes: > hash_t toHash() > > Is that a little documentation error? I presume they both have to return an > uint or hash_t or a size_t... > > What's the purpose of a separated hash_t type? Can't it be removed, keeping > just an uint or size_t for that purpose? > > Thank you, bye, > bearophile >
I'm pretty sure it's actually a limitation of DDoc. DDoc always outputs the base type of an alias instead of the alias name, which really, _really_ pisses me off. Coincidentally, hash_t is defined as "alias uint hash_t;", I presume for the potential of having i.e. a 64-bit hash at some point.
