Where possible, I try to split out the modular sections of my code so that, if possible, I can take advantage of reuse at a later date - I assume (and hope) that everyone else does the same thing. In the process of doing so, I attempt to make the reusable module as generic as possible and one of the things that I've started to do lately (primarily due to the work we've done on openslice) is take that genericism to a further extent by allowing Nothing or Null as a parameter where practical.

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