From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-01T18:19:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18950] Re: Hash vs ==

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:18930] Hash vs =="
    on 01/08/01, Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

|My implementation takes a callback to generate a key for comparison. This 
|makes sense in Perl, but what are the rules in Ruby? If you override == are 
|you expected to override hash() as well (as in Smalltalk)? If so, I could use 
|hash.

Hash uses "eql?", so that if you override "eql?" you expected to
override "hash" as well.

							matz.