> mm.. well, i prefer that fairly common would be to pass meaningful data back 
> and forth rather than
> dummy values.
I don't understand... when I say "fairly common", I mean that in the C world, 
it seems common to use null-passing for optional arguments. I'm not saying that 
it's a good idea, but we don't have control over that, so...

> For that best solution, IMO, would be to use 2 methods which call same 
> function,
> but one uses 'nil' in function signature (and therefore method doesn't takes 
> extra argument),
> while other takes extra argument but doesn't accepts nils, for sure.
Yuck ;)



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