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+On Mon, Dec 07 2015, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:\r
+> I note that it's exposed in the go bindings -- maybe it shouldn't be\r
+> exposed in any of the bindings that can avoid exposing it?\r
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+Quite likely. It's only there in C because there's no other way to know\r
+the bounds for iterating over all possible values for a particular\r
+enum. If other languages don't have this deficiency, then they shouldn't\r
+need this silly thing.\r
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