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From: Stephen & Tammy House <house@ro.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for generic hash function
Date: 1996/08/21
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> In article <4v23jd$mg9@News.Dal.Ca> grandyre@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Robert Grandy) writes:
> 
>   > The function would return a pretty much random Integer based on its
>   > generic parameter. I was thinking of using the 'size attribute, 

Most hash functions are used to map a record into a structure (read
array).  So the data_type from the example I left before should be the
key to the record being stored/retrieved.  Your hash will make a nice
random number generator, but if the record needed is ever passed by
value through the system, you'll never find it.