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Subject: RE: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Dave Berry writes:
>Perhaps we should stop arguing and start co-operating.

Umm...  I really appreciate the sweetness and light and everything,
but I'm not totally sure I'm clear on the difference as long as
information is being freely exchanged.

Steve Knight: It is not possible to write a polymorphic hash-function.
>I don't see how it's possible to write a polymorphic hash-function in
>any language unless you know all the possible types or
>type-representations that the language will ever have, at the time
>when you write the function.

If you're talking about a small-talkish language, you just require
that the 'type' allow whatever methods you need to implement your
hashing.

Raul Rockwell