From: Nate Smith <nsmith5@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T04:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash values too big to fit into buckets

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 15:45, Florian Gross wrote:
> Nate Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> Moin!

Hallo!

> 
> > 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

Ah, great. That didn't work completely (but sent me on the path that got
to this, which fixed the problem):

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

Thanks much.

Nate