hash design problem: both string and int[] keys

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:42:50 Charles Hixson wrote:
> >  > It should be relatively
> >  > easy, as strings are really just an immutable list of ints,
> > 
> > A list of dchars is more accurate of course, but yes, dchar can be
> > casted to int.
> 
> Well, longs anyway.  Which is a minor problem, as I'd prefer to use
> ints, which are smaller.

Um, no. int is 32 bits. dchar is 32 bits. long is 64 bits. So, both int and 
dchar will implicitly convert to long, but long will not implicitly to them. 
int and dchar however _do_ implicitly convert both ways. But if you're using 
string, then you're dealing with char (8 bits), which means that it's byte or 
ubyte (also 8 bits) that it implicitly converts to, not int.

- Jonathan M Davis