<p>Right, I agree on the value in being able to return something to say "this cannot be converted to a concrete container".</p>
<p>I still haven't seen a use case where the appropriate response to "I don't know" differs from the appropriate response to a hint of zero - that is, you don't preallocate, you just start iterating.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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