AnyHashable has numerous edge cases where two AnyHashable values compare equal but produce different hashes. This breaks Set and Dictionary invariants and can cause unexpected behavior and/or traps. This change overhauls AnyHashable's implementation to fix these edge cases, hopefully without introducing new issues.
- Fix transitivity of ==. Previously, comparisons involving AnyHashable values with Objective-C provenance were handled specially, breaking Equatable:
let a = (42 as Int as AnyHashable)
let b = (42 as NSNumber as AnyHashable)
let c = (42 as Double as AnyHashable)
a == b // true
b == c // true
a == c // was false(!), now true
let d = ("foo" as AnyHashable)
let e = ("foo" as NSString as AnyHashable)
let f = ("foo" as NSString as NSAttributedStringKey as AnyHashable)
d == e // true
e == f // true
d == f // was false(!), now true
- Fix Hashable conformance for numeric types boxed into AnyHashable:
b == c // true
b.hashValue == c.hashValue // was false(!), now true
Fixing this required adding a custom AnyHashable box for all standard integer and floating point types. The custom box was needed to ensure that two AnyHashables containing the same number compare equal and hash the same way, no matter what their original type was. (This behavior is required to ensure consistency with NSNumber, which has not been preserving types since SE-0170.
- Add custom AnyHashable representations for Arrays, Sets and Dictionaries, so that when they contain numeric types, they hash correctly under the new rules above.
- Remove AnyHashable._usedCustomRepresentation. The provenance of a value should not affect its behavior.
- Allow AnyHashable values to be downcasted into compatible types more often.
- Forward _rawHashValue(seed:) to AnyHashable box. This fixes AnyHashable hashing for types that customize single-shot hashing.
https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-7496
rdar://problem/39648819
