The review of std.hash package

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:03:32 +0100, Tobias Pankrath <tobias at pankrath.net>  
wrote:

> On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 at 12:55:04 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
>
>> Like it or not, Digest is the correct term:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
>> "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm .."
>
> You could have cited the hole sentence

I could have, but I didn't read that far :p  I knew what I was looking for  
and I copy/pasted it.

>> The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash  
>> function
>
> So at least this implies that hash function is the more general term  
> here and the corresponding wiki article is named "hash function" and  
> does not even mention digest.

"Message-Digest Algorithm" is the proper term, "hash" is another, correct,  
more general term.

"hash" has other meanings, "Message-Digest Algorithm" does not.

std.message-digest-algorithm is a bit wordy.

std.digest is not.

std.digest cannot be confused with anything else.

>>> I didn't think of an hash table implementation, maybe you are spoiled  
>>> by writing one at the moment? (no offence).
>>
>> "Hash" has too many meanings, we should avoid it.
>
> At least hash table does not use a different meaning of the term hash.
>
> But I'm not that deep into it, I'd just say that digest is not clearly  
> better than hash.

I think it is.

R

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