opHash??

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/10/12 11:10 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:49:07PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> 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/
> [...]
>
> Actually, I looked, but it wasn't listed.
>
> Andrei? Is this an error?

Most likely!

Andrei