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Author methane
Recipients CAM-Gerlach, docs@python, giampaolo.rodola, methane, tarek
Date 2019-04-01.05:37:22
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I don' think they are modern-style vs legacy-style.

When explicit default value is present, the default value is documented in signature like `param=42`.
On the other hand, when default value is not explicit (just an placeholder), the parameter is expressed using optional group `[param]`.
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2019-04-01 05:37:23methanesetrecipients: + methane, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, docs@python, CAM-Gerlach
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