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by Const-me 2541 days ago
Couple interesting points.

1. const correctness is awesome. I miss it so much in C# which I happen to code a lot as well. When you have a function which accepts `const Grid<int>& grid`, you can’t call resize() nor change cell values. If you’ll try, the code won’t compile. My given name is Const so I have bias, but still.

2. asserts. They aren’t even C++, these are from C, but IMO they have better ergonomics than C++ exceptions. They compile into nothing in release builds i.e. don’t affect performance, but in debug builds they trap to debugger right away, showing what exactly is not OK. For production code, sometimes it’s a good idea to use preprocessor trickery to turn failed asserts into scary log messages, in release builds.

P.S. It’s possible to implement much better resize(). When neither old nor new size is empty, the version on that gist will essentially turn old data into garbage. A better solution for that case, make a new vector on the stack, write a loop to crop or expand the items (e.g. calling std::copy_n), then call vector::swap to replace Grid::data vector with the newly built one.