Re^2: What is this doing, and why is this a good method of doing it?

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Indeed. The function is defined with whatever level of strictures were in effect for the preceding code. Obviously, the code could be written in nicer ways, but the idea is to make sure that (specifically) no symbolic references are used in the code reference.

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