HashVisitable Swift Evolution Proposal
Vincent Esche (via Tyler Fox):
In short:
Hashableis utterly error-prone and does not compose well. And that’s a shame![…]
If even the official Swift documentation gets the implementation of
hashValuewrong, then who is to expect the average Swift programmer to do any better?[…]
Now, I’m the first to admit that a scenario where one needs to have multiple hashing algorithms is rather rare.
There are however certain circumstances where multiple hashes per value are desired, if not outright necessary: Bloom Filters.
[…]
As the name implies this new API makes use of the visitor pattern. Instead of implementing the hashing logic on the type
Titself we are moving it into dedicatedHashertypes, which then get passed to the objects to be hashed.
Here’s his propoasal.
See also: SE-0185: Synthesizing Equatable and Hashable conformance.
