hashOf()

[Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 November 2016 at 13:11:41 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 11/2/16 12:14 PM, Márcio Martins wrote:
>> [...]
>
> You are not the only one:
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/nv85ou$gi5$1@digitalmars.com
>
> Note, I wholly disagree with the idea that hashOf(arr) hashes 
> the pointer and length elements. I get why it does, and get 
> what the charter of hashOf is. But nobody expects it.
>
> IMO, hashOf should fail to compile on types that contain 
> pointers, including arrays. In fact, I'm thinking hashOf 
> shouldn't even be available in object. It's completely 
> inconsistent with all other forms of hashing a type (which use 
> typeinfo, opHash, etc.). It's too low-level, and should be 
> accessible only via an import.
>
> -Steve

That's what I'd expect as well. The hashOf() in 
core.internal.hash is useful, and it works intuitively, IMO, so 
if one is implicitly imported it should be that one...