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No it's more than that. "unsigned char[20]" already has at least three potential points of failure (and why isn't it uint8 anyways). Moreover, it'll be referenced as unsigned char*, which opens another can of worms. And oh, by the way, have fun searching all references to sha1 on your source code now that you weren't pro enough to create a type for your object ids / hashes.

I'm guessing it's part lack of skill in design, part bad software development tools (uEMACS and makefiles or something), and part just being against c++ et al.



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