Roy Smith a écrit : (snip)
The reasoning goes along the lines of, "reverse in place is an expensive operation, so we don't want to make it too easy for people to do". At least that's the gist of what I got out of the argument the many times it has come up.
IIRC, it's more along the line of "reverse in place is a *destructive* operation, so we don't want to make it too easy for people to forget about it".
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