That's a fair point. Though another way to avoid making the mistakes is to not invent data structures. That's what libraries are for, and anyone not using a l

That's a fair point. Though another way to avoid making the mistakes is to not invent data structures. That's what libraries are for, and anyone not using a library data structure should be able to defend why they're not. Odds are, they've got no chance of writing something better than what the libraries provide (or they'd be a library writer and already know these things).