Title
[fund.ts] Hashing disengaged optional<T> objects
Status
resolved
Section
[optional.hash]
Submitter
Jonathan Wakely

Created on 2013-10-03.00:00:00 last changed 120 months ago

Messages

Date: 2014-06-17.08:47:43

Proposed resolution:

This wording is relative to N3691.

  1. Add to [optional.hash]/3

    template <class T> struct hash<optional<T>>;
    

    […]

    -3- For an object o of type optional<T>, if bool(o) == true, hash<optional<T>>()(o) shall evaluate to the same value as hash<T>()(*o) otherwise it evaluates to an unspecified value.

Date: 2014-06-16.00:00:00

[ 2014-06-16 Rapperswill ]

Confirmed that this issue is resolved in the current Library Fundamentals working paper.

Date: 2014-06-07.00:00:00

[ 2014-06-07 Daniel comments ]

This issue should be set to Resolved, because the wording fix is already applied in the last fundamentals working draft.

Date: 2014-06-06.00:00:00

[ 2014-06-06 pre-Rapperswill ]

This issue has been reopened as fundamentals-ts.

Date: 2014-06-06.21:18:30

Addresses: fund.ts

The spec for hash<optional<T>> doesn't say anything about disengaged objects, so [defns.undefined] would imply it's undefined behaviour, but that's very unhelpful to users.

If hashing disengaged optional objects is undefined there should be a Requires, otherwise there should be some statement saying it's OK.

It would be possible to specify the value, e.g. saying it returns the same value as something like std::hash<void*>()(nullptr), but leaving it unspecified would permit users to specialize hash<optional<UserDefinedType>> so that the hash value for a disengaged object is distinct from any value returned by hash<UserDefinedType>.

History
Date User Action Args
2014-06-17 08:47:43adminsetmessages: + msg7060
2014-06-17 08:47:43adminsetstatus: open -> resolved
2014-06-07 17:23:44adminsetmessages: + msg7008
2014-06-06 21:18:30adminsetmessages: + msg6998
2014-06-06 21:18:30adminsetstatus: deferred -> open
2013-10-12 21:21:26adminsetmessages: + msg6734
2013-10-03 00:00:00admincreate