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Author belopolsky
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Date 2010-10-18.13:56:01
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Benjamin Peterson
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> No, negative values have to be allowed.
>

Why?  As far as I can tell, negative values are only used as sentinels
and we can use say (size_t)-1 instead of -1L.  Are there cases where
hash values' ordering is important?
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