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[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

My guess to why there’s two functions is because it was originally only internal, and the programmer realized they needed public as well, but changing internal to public is too scary so they created a new method instead.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

That does sound scary on general principles

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