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Comment by assbuttbuttass

1 day ago

The definition is perfectly consistent. append is in-place if there's enough capacity (and the programmer can check this directly with cap() if they want), and otherwise it allocates a new backing array.

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terminalbraid  1 day ago

Yes, it's consistent and complicated and non-intuitive.

"Consistent" is necessary but not sufficient for "good".

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