[mercury-users] hash_table module bug?

[Ralph Becket]

> From: Peter Ross [mailto:peter.ross at miscrit.be]
> Sent: 06 September 2001 17:05
> To: mercury-users at cs.mu.OZ.AU
> Subject: Re: [mercury-users] hash_table module bug?
> 
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:15:02PM +0200, Dominique de Waleffe wrote:
> >
> No, it is a bug in hash_table.
> 
> Currently det_insert doesn't check to see whether or not the hash
table
> has been initialised yet like hash_table__set does.

That was fast: Pete gets a cigar!  I'll try to check in the fix 
tomorrow.

> The work around would be to call hash_table__set for the first
element,
> and then det_insert for the rest.

Just use hash_table__set/3 unless you really need to check you
aren't overwriting bindings in the hash table.

- Ralph
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