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Article #3152RE: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 15:08
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 15:08
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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
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