How to hash any type to an integer?

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon May 30 05:14:02 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 16:26:58 UTC, Seb wrote:
> 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

Awesome, thanks. Can't believe I missed that.


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