On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:54 PM, spir wrote: > Some questions on the topic of object identity/address, and hashing: Out of curiosity... what do you need a table's hash for? During my initial "get to know Lua" phase, I thought it would be kind of cool to build an entire OO system on top of Lua: http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/lu http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/LW Here was my hash method then (never of any practical use, by the way): http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/lu/LUObject.lua#L153 Now... with insight... such endeavor turned out to be a total waste of time... a beautiful exercise in futility. But... to each their own :)