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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Documentation In a spec File Usually Enough For You ?
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:27:14 -0500
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> Le 18/10/2018 à 23:24, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
>> After all, "good" is not a technical term, in any field that I'm aware 
>> of.
> However, quoting A.4.9(12/2):
>   "The Hash functions should be good hash functions..."
>
> Admitedly, it's only implementation advice ;-)

Exactly. One of the most meaningless statements in the RM. Note that this 
statement goes on to give a description of what it means: "...returning a 
wide spread of values for different string values. It should be unlikely for 
similar strings to return the same value." That's the important part; "good" 
really doesn't add anything here.

                             Randy.