From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-12-09 18:01:50


On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> ...there is an example of doing that here
>
> https://pdimov.github.io/hash2/doc/html/hash2.html#example_result_extension

I will argue that for all the cases where result extension is a valid
use-case, that the caller is already committed to a specific hash
algorithm. And in this case the hash algorithm can specify additional
behavior for update() and result() with no reduction in the usability of
Hash2.

Thanks