[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add automatic randomization to remaining core hash-functions

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

Attached is a trivial patch to add the procedures number-hash,
object-uid-hash, symbol-hash and keyword-hash to the procedures
considered for "automatic" randomization.

This means that when a user explicitly passes these procedures
to MAKE-HASH-TABLE as the hashing parameter, they will be automatically
called with the extra "randomization" argument.

This omission was pointed out by Jim in ticket #818.  After thinking
why I didn't initially add these I realised that these functions are
*not* automatically selected based on the comparison procedure, like
the ones that are already listed.  Further, the user is expected to do
any randomization themselves when passing a custom hashing function
but I guess we can make an exception for the other core procedures,
which makes it a bit more consistent and easier to use.

Cheers,
Peter
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0001-Add-remaining-hashing-procedures-to-list-of-automati.patch
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