hash values and equality

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 21 May 2011 02:02:48 +0100, MRAB wrote:

> On 21/05/2011 01:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 May 2011 21:17:29 +0100, MRAB wrote:
>>
>>> On 20/05/2011 20:01, Christian Heimes wrote:
>>>> Am 20.05.2011 17:50, schrieb MRAB:
>>>>> Is this strictly true? I thought that the hash value, an integer, is
>>>>> moduloed (Is that how you spell it? Looks weird!) ...
>>>>
>>>> I don't think 'moduloed' is an existing word but your description is
>>>> mostly correct. ...
>>>>
>>> A brief search on the web found a use of the word in 1982.
>>
>> All that means is that two people, three decades apart, used the same
>> non- word :)
>>
> [snip]
> There were other uses. That's just the earliest one I found.


Nevertheless, it is still ungrammatical and incorrect usage. I'm not a 
prescriptivist, but not everything people write down is a word, otherwise 
we'd be forcefied to say evert typlo and mystake wsa an actul wrd.



-- 
Steven