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Author terry.reedy
Recipients barry, chrism, eric.araujo, ncoghlan, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2013-12-07.00:08:44
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> Changing return type based on argument *values* is still a bad idea in
general.

I understand the proposal to be changing the return based on argument *presence*. It strikes me a a convenient abbreviation for making a separate encoding call and definitely (specifically?) less bad than a separate module or separate functions.
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