enclosed

enclosed -- a term used in the documentation to describe an expression whose hash code distinguishes it from all other enclosed expressions. Enclosed expressions include Objects or Lists which are mutable, and Symbols. Unenclosed expressions have hash codes which are computed from the contents of the expression, so it may happen that the hash codes are the same when the contents are different, or the contents are the same and the expressions are different.

See also hashing.

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