Yeah, it's nice! And Abseil does it, IFF you use LLVM libc++. https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/strings/internal/resize_uninitialized.h htt

Yeah, it's nice! And Abseil does it, IFF you use LLVM libc++. https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/strings/internal/resize_uninitialized.h https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/string... The standard adopted it as resize_and_overwrite. Which I think is a little clunky.