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From: Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>,
	"caml list" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Stability of order between polymorphic variants
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:39:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM3Ki74EWQ8tCLLiq4Q8L9+hGbYjPdTR5Vgv-qrQWtS9VHxA_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0632AAE4-0DEA-4905-8F70-0646DE62E947@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

On 5 September 2013 09:24, Jacques Garrigue
<garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> As was pointed by some, the hashing function ensures that all constructor names up to 4 characters may not conflict, on all architectures.
> It also preserves the order in that case.
> Since there is no reason to change this hashing function, I suppose you can rely on that.

This seems quite fragile.  If you're going to rely on that,
I'd suggest having a unit test.

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05  0:17 Daniel Bünzli
2013-09-05  2:06 ` Anthony Tavener
2013-09-05  2:11   ` Anthony Tavener
2013-09-05  2:18     ` Francois Berenger
2013-09-05  2:31       ` Anthony Tavener
2013-09-05  7:47         ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-09-05  8:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-09-05  8:39   ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2013-09-05  9:26 ` Jeremy Yallop
2013-09-05 14:46   ` Goswin von Brederlow

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