The review of std.hash package

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Aug 8 05:02:06 PDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:37:35AM +0100, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:41:12 +0100, Jonathan M Davis
> <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday, August 07, 2012 15:31:57 Ary Manzana wrote:
> >>I think "std.crypto" is a better name for the package. At first I
> >>thought it contained an implementation of a Hash table.
> >
> >That doesn't fly, because crc32 is going to be in there, and while
> >it's a hash, it's no good for cryptography.
> 
> std.digest then?
[...]

+1. I think std.hash is needlessly confusing (I thought it was another
hashtable implementation until I read this thread more carefully).


T

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