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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:46:41 +0930
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Package registration
From: Will Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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On 22 Jun 2018, at 5:54 am, David Kastrup <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> A stupid question that just occured to me: should we be discouraging
> registering prefixes that match another prefix' contribution to the
> overly simplistic hash function used in almost all TeX engines?

Would it be easier to update the hash function in the engines? :) 
What would be the easiest way to test for clashes?

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