On 08-Aug-12 21:00, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
On 08-Aug-12 18:16, Christophe Travert wrote:
They should not be categorized the same. I don't expect a regular hash
function to pass the isDigest predicate. But they have many
similarities, which explains they are all called hash functions. There
is enough room in a package to put several related concepts!
You still can use say crc32 as normal hash function for some binary
object. The notions are not as desperate as some designers would want
them to be.
Damned spellcheckers: desperate -> disparate
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Dmitry Olshansky
