Re: storing the hash multiplier instead of the hash value

[Walter Bright]

Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
I think that the public interface should be exposed (or re-exposed) 
somewhere to the outside so that one can easily create efficient hashes 
for user defined types.
For example it is nice to be able to chain hash functions (something 
that the default one does not allow).

Just overload the toHash() function for your user-defined type to be whatever 
you want it to be.