How to hash any type to an integer?

Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun May 29 09:26:58 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 11:05:21 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> I'm currently implementing a hash map as an exercise and 
> wondered if there is a built-in function I could use to hash 
> keys effectively? What I'm looking for is a function that 
> hashes any variable (of any type) to an integer.
>
> I've been looking at the `getHash` function of the `TypeInfo` 
> class but that only seems to return the passed pointer. Any 
> ideas?

How about hashOf?
https://dlang.org/phobos/object.html#.hashOf



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