Is allocate a function or subroutine?

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@RonShepard

I think in that other thread, people were wanting a reallocate function that would extend an existing array allocation and preserve the data in the first elements. Thus it is a little different from my proposal.

Your proposal would just be a particular case of that other one, actually.

@RonShepard

My general feeling about extending an existing array is that if you need to do that often, you are probably using the wrong data structure.

You’re probably right in theory. In practice, though, I can see that the resizability feature of the C++ vectors is quite often used.