On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 20:49:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 19:41:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/20/2016 6:24 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I don't see a need for hashing something. Would a
randomly-generated string
suffice?
Hashing produces reproducible unique values. Random will not
be reproducible and may not even be unique.
The question is: is it actually good for them to be
reproducible? The very idea behind voldemort types is that you
don't reference them directly in any way, it is just
implementation detail. To me it does make sense to apply it to
debugging too (debugging of deeply chained template types isn't
really very usable anyway).
It would make binary comparison of libraries and executables
difficult which troubles me as comparing hashes is a basics of
binary distribution security : you can check that a precompiled
binary is legit by recompiling it in the same conditions and
comparing the two. It would be way harder if random components
were added.
