From: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
Date: 2013-03-21T10:22:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53587] Re: Consistent hashing in the face of HashDOS?

Hello Shota,

On 2013/03/21 9:50, Shota Fukumori (sora_h) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
> <headius@headius.com>  wrote:
>> My question for ruby-core: at what point did you decide to make hash
>> for e.g. nil not be a single value (it was "4" in 1.8.7 and
>> different/random in 1.9.3+), and why did you do it?
>
> Wait, `nil.id` returns NoMethodError, `nil.__id__` returns '4' (1.9.3)
> or '8' (2.0.0+),
> not a random value.

The question is about nil.hash, not about nil.__id__.

Regards,   Martin.