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Nov 2026

What it Doesn't Do

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Alastair found this comment in his codebase, and wondered, "who wrote this comment?" A quick blame answered the question: he did. He did not, however, write the code.

 public function getAllMailers() {
        // This function neither returns Mailers, nor all of them.
        ...
 }