The type handling in these was improved in Hugo 0.49, but this also meant that it was no longer possible to start out with a string slice and later append `Page` etc. to it.
This commit makes sure that the old behaviour is now possible again by falling back to a `[]interface{}` as a last resort.
Fixes#5361
The fix introduced in Hugo `0.49.1` had an unintended side-effect in the `Append` func used in both `append` and `.Scratch.Add`.
This commit fixes that by loosen/fixing the type checking so concrete types can be appended to interface slices.
Fixes#5303
This commit consolidates the reflective collections handling in `.Scratch` vs the `tpl` package so they use the same code paths.
This commit also adds support for a corner case where a typed slice is appended to a nil or empty `[]interface{}`.
Fixes#5275
Before this commit you would typically use `.Scratch.Add` to manually create slices in a loop.
With variable overwrite in Go 1.11, we can do better. This commit adds the `append` template func.
A made-up example:
```bash
{{ $p1 := index .Site.RegularPages 0 }}{{ $p2 := index .Site.RegularPages 1 }}
{{ $pages := slice }}
{{ if true }}
{{ $pages = $pages | append $p2 $p1 }}
{{ end }}
```
Note that with 2 slices as arguments, the two examples below will give the same result:
```bash
{{ $s1 := slice "a" "b" | append (slice "c" "d") }}
{{ $s2 := slice "a" "b" | append "c" "d" }}
```
Both of the above will give `[]string{a, b, c, d}`.
This commit also improves the type handling in the `slice` template function. Now `slice "a" "b"` will give a `[]string` slice. The old behaviour was to return a `[]interface{}`.
Fixes#5190
This extends the page grouping in Hugo with a template function that allows for ad-hoc grouping.
A made-up example:
```
{{ $cool := where .Site.RegularPages "Params.cool" true | group "cool" }}
{{ $blue := where .Site.RegularPages "Params.blue" true | group "blue" }}
{{ $paginator := .Paginate (slice $cool $blue) }}
```
Closes#4865
