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From:         Will Robertson <will@WSPR.IO>
Subject: Re: Package registration
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On 22 Jun 2018, at 5:54 am, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

W