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On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 08:48:07PM -0400, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 7/2/10 17:24 , Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
> > The problem with this approach is that the hash context isn't a monoid; you
> > can absorb data into the context, but you can't combine two hash contexts to
> > form a new one. Thus, the Writer monad won't work for this purpose.
>
> No? The context is simply a String, which is a monoid, and you can combine
> contexts quite meaningfully before you actually compute the final hash (in
> fact, that's the whole point!).
The context isn't a string. it is an intermediate state in the algorithm
of the hash function. it is usually an opaque binary blob (represented by a
ByteString) of a size that is on the order of the final hash (unrelated
to the size of the input).
John
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