In our pre-C++11 library we had containers with a append_uninitialized_element() and called placement new on that with an explicit ctor. While syntactically pho

In our pre-C++11 library we had containers with a append_uninitialized_element() and called placement new on that with an explicit ctor. While syntactically phony it had an unambigous semantic. Code review had to check (remember, pre clang-tidy times) that the method way never used alone.