From: Nate Smith <nsmith5@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T04:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash values too big to fit into buckets

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:36, Nate Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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

Well dividing the resulting hash value by 2 fixes the problem.. but such
a hack probably has bad side effects down the road.... >:-)