Saying this is clearly superior means you don’t keep your lists sorted. A sorted list is as likely to add something to the beginning as the end, where this solution has the same problem.
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- a
- b
- cI'm just suddenly slightly terrified someone's going to see this and think it's genuinely a good idea and make it part of the next popular scripting language, where lists are defined by starting commas or something :S
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