opHash??

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 18:44:40 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> TDPL, p.117, last para:
> 
> 	... For a user-defined type to be used as a key in an
> 	associative array, it must define two special methods, opHash
> 	and opCmp.
> 
> Really? I thought the convention was toHash (TDPL, p.205). So, which is
> it? Which *should* it be?
> 
> To me, it seems utterly arbitrary that classes should use toHash whereas
> non-class user-defined types should use opHash. Shouldn't we make it
> consistent across the board?

I expect that opHash was a mistake and that there should be an errata for that 
line on page 117: http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/

- Jonathan M Davis