Re: Poor ROTten SXHASH

[Jon L White <JONL at MIT-MC>]

CC of reply to GLS:
I liked you analysis -- probably ROT-car-11/ROT-cdr-7 would
keep every user happy.  Maybe we should probe the community on
the desirability of a change?  One more thing though -- in NIL,
there are vectors with n components so how to distinguish them?
would it be something like
   (DO ((I (1- (VECTOR-LENGTH V)) (1- I))
        (RESULT <some-random-constant-for-null-vectors>))
       ((< i 0) RESULT)
    (SETQ RESULT (+ (ROT RESULT -1) (SXHASH (VREF V I))))
or maybe the last line could even include in the index I somehow
    (+ (ROT RESULT -1) (randomify I) (SXHASH (VREF V I)))