Re: [boost] [hash] Extract module from functional + std::hash_combine

Subject: Re: [boost] [hash] Extract module from functional + std::hash_combine
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-20 21:42:24

On 21/12/2017 07:00, Daniel James wrote:
> On 20 December 2017 at 17:43, Peter Dimov wrote:
>> What I meant was that the existence of boost::hash makes it awkward to use
>> 'hash' as a module name for anything else, so we might as well use it for
>> the obvious thing.
> 
> If there is to be a better hash module, having an existing module
> called 'hash' could make it less findable.

Perhaps that potential future library could be called cryptographic_hash 
instead.  (Since it can't define namespace hash anyway.)