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They can, and they wouldn't be necessarily be wrong.

However if the library is trying to be as idiomatic / general purpose / good citizen as possible, then they should strongly consider not doing that and only use the user provided allocator (unless there is a clear and documented reason why that is not the case).

I don't think it would make sense to restrict this at the language level. As a developer it's up to you to exercise your judgement when you examine what libraries you choose to depend on.

I appreciate the fact it's a common design pattern in Zig libraries and I also appreciate the fact I'm not forced to do it if I don't want to. If it matters to me then I'll consider libraries that are designed that way, if it does not matter to me then I can consider libraries that do not support this.



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