On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:28 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

> $> implications must be understood and weighed
> $> before choosing a different course.
> 
> So why should a hash value be negative?

He gave a good answer for that: to 
maximize the number of useful bits
in a fixnum hash value.

-t

 


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