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by monkeyelite 382 days ago
> This seems like a crazy guarantee to put in the standard

It’s a great and useful guarantee.

> it must really limit the kinds of hash tables you can make that matches the unordered_map interface.

Many libraries treat containers as “abstract” with many possible implementations. STL explicitly does not. It’s a specific data structure from a computer science class.