From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T04:45:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash values too big to fit into buckets

Nate Smith wrote:

> Hello,

Moin!

> Is there any way to get around values being too big (being assigned as
> bignums) to fit into a hash? (Not a Hash class, but a hash fixnum
> assigned to each bucket). For example, in my LR parser, each
> Production's hash is composed of the hashes of its elements:
> 
> def hash    #   Production#hash
>     @nonTerminal.hash + @action.hash + @expansion.hash
> end

Maybe like this?

def hash
   [@nonTerminal, @action, @expansion].hash
end

Regards,
Florian Gross