Your words are almost exactly what went through my head when I first began the research into prototypes, behind the suggestion I mentioned.
I'd say that prototypes make functions less generic.
I completely agree, I mean how is it, that putting a limitation on the number and type of arguments that can be passed to a function, make it generic and more suitable to use as a standby function?...That concept never made much sense to me. Glad someone else saw that. Now, as far as the reasons one might choose to use prototypes, I'm sure there are many great arguments, but for the point of creating generic functions, I agree that there doesn't seem to be a correlation.
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