RFR: 7057785 : (xs) Add note to hashCode() that support for self referential is optional

[Alan Eliasen]

On 08/28/2013 04:47 PM, Guy Steele wrote:
> <oldfogey> *ahem* Y'know, Common Lisp had a good solution for
> printing self-referential structures (by a user-extensible print
> function) back in 1984.
> 
> It leaned on the solution that had been provided in Interlisp in
> 1974.  On a machine with one megabyte of main memory and a speed of 1
> MIPS.
> 
> This is not rocket science. </oldfogey>

   Hehe.  So could you please describe the solution?

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