Bug#663180: Provides no zero value

[David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>]

Hello,

2012/3/9 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>:
> I found myself in a situation where I needed to fill in a dummy Sha1.t
> into a record to initialize an array. I didn't want to use an Sha1.t
> option because the value is only every invalid during initialization
> and an option type would mean extracting from "Some x" at every other
> place.
>
> The attached patch adds a Sha*.zero value that can be used for this
> purpose.

Why don't you define this Sha1.zero value in your code and use it
there? This patch seems to me very specific to your code and of
dubious use in a library.

Best regards,
david