Does Animator::StringToHash methods has side effects?

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I’ve just discovered Animator::StringToHash method. I’d like to use hashed strings elsewhere in my project.
Since it belongs to Animator class, I don’t know if it has any side effect on Animator class state itself (I hope not since it’s a static method).

The question is: can I use Animator::StringToHash method for hashing parameters that doen’t belong to Animator? Can this cause any problem?

thank you in advance

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Static methods are not aware of any class instances. So technically you’re not calling it on the Animator at all. And it is simply a string hashing method.

But we make no guarantees that the hashing algorithm wont change in later versions of Unity.