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644 points ustad | 2 comments | 22 Aug 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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813ac4312b25c ◴[22 Aug 25 12:10 UTC] No.44983544[source]▶
> Probably [hello NIGHTMARE !]. Who wants that? Nobody wants that.

I don't really care if you want that. Everyone should know that that's just the way slices work. Nothing more nothing less.

I really don't give a damn about that, i just know how slices behave, because I learned the language. That's what you should do when you are programming with it (professionally)

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terminalbraid ◴[22 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.44983610[source]▶
If you're fine with that then you should be upset by the subsequent example, because by your own definition "that's just not the way slices work".
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813ac4312b25c ◴[22 Aug 25 12:22 UTC] No.44983646[source]▶
I am fine with the subsequent example, too. If you read up about slices, then that's how they are defined and how they work. I am not judging, I am just using the language as it is presented to me.

For anyone interested, this article explains the fundamentals very well, imo: https://go.dev/blog/slices-intro

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terminalbraid ◴[22 Aug 25 12:26 UTC] No.44983686[source]▶
Then you seem to be fine with inconsistent ownership and a behavioral dependence on the underlying data rather than the structure.

You really don't see why people would point a definition that changes underneath you out as a bad definition? They're not arguing the documentation is wrong.

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1. assbuttbuttass ◴[22 Aug 25 12:37 UTC] No.44983824{3}[source]▶
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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2. terminalbraid ◴[22 Aug 25 12:42 UTC] No.44983869[source]▶
Yes, it's consistent and complicated and non-intuitive.

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