Is there any kind of hash code function in JavaScript?

Question

Basically, I\'m trying to create an object of unique objects, a set. I had the brilliant idea of just using a JavaScript object with objects for the property names. Such as,

Answer 1

In addition to eyelidlessness's answer, here is a function that returns a reproducible, unique ID for any object:

var uniqueIdList = [];
function getConstantUniqueIdFor(element) {
    // HACK, using a list results in O(n), but how do we hash e.g. a DOM node?
    if (uniqueIdList.indexOf(element) < 0) {
        uniqueIdList.push(element);
    }
    return uniqueIdList.indexOf(element);
}

As you can see it uses a list for look-up which is very inefficient, however that's the best I could find for now.