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The only thing advanceBy has going for it is that when the programmer inevitably tries to type add (after wondering why plus turns up nothing), the IDE _might_ show it in a dropdown.


Ok, but that’s when you read the docs. Also, in many languages, those expected methods could be mocked out to raise compiler errors, redirecting the developer to the correct methods.




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