From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T21:51:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Sets are not extensional


"Florian Gross" <flgr@ccan.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2nh57hFqhe5U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Moin!
>
> > The only
> > conclusion so far is, that Hash#hash is Object#hash (because it's not
> > overridden as you state) and thus can't take into account the contents
of
> > the Hash.  Can you please clarify this?
>
> irb(main):001:0> {1 => 2}.method(:hash)
> => #<Method: Hash(Kernel)#hash>
>
> So it is indeed not overwritten.

Thanks for confirming.  But I was after something differnt: The statement
I was referring to is

> /* in hash.c the "hash" method is never overridden.  So rb_obj_id() is
> the "hash" method for hashes. */

I can't see the connection between hash and id - at least not in the code
snippets posted.

Regards

    robert