The review of std.hash package

[Kagamin]

On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 at 08:17:01 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 August 2012 at 07:41:20 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 09:59:48 UTC, David Nadlinger 
>> wrote:
>>> Hash functions are _not_ analogous to reduce(), because the 
>>> operation performed by reduce() is stateless, whereas hash 
>>> functions generally have some internal state.
>>
>> An example of stateless hash in .net:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xa627k19.aspx
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.hashalgorithm.state
>
> David

Ok, but HashAlgorithm still supports stateless interface which 
consists of a single method with a couple of overloads, the 
example in the ComputeHash article speaks for itself.