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btilly on May 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Best Practices Exist For A Reason

I have found that this is much less likely in practice.

Lists usually grow on the end, not the beginning.

(I use this kind of formatting for SQL, for a similar reason.)

chris_wot on May 2, 2012 [–]

There's nothing like spending hours tracking down a bug that shouldn't occur in normal practice.

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