Comment by quicknir

Post author here. Sorry you feel that way. I'm surprised you don't think that moving out the messy code into make_contiguous is a win. Isn't it good to factor out clearly reusable code into functions, so you can reuse it? Would you really prefer writing out code like that in a dozen places for a dozen classes that needed contiguous storage, to writing one function, testing it, and then calling it from all those other places?