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This is what happened in Ireland when new taxes on sugary drinks came in. Drinks that came in 2L bottles now came in 1.75L bottles at the same price. The diet versions with no sugar remained in 2L bottles. Companies like Coke are now only making variants like vanilla or cherry flavours using their diet or zero sugar products

Not sure that many OSS projects are going to be interested in merging a patch where a conversation with the patch author for review/feedback can't happen

Could you have your "get" handler do its thing and have it forward on the arguments it received to the "apply" handler if necessary with an extra flag argument and vice versa?

The category theory idea of a morphism is more abstract than a function. If functions deal with domains and codomains then certainly morphisms need new words to deal with the abstractions of those ideas that are specific to functions.

The whole "setup your environment" phase is tricky for someone new especially if you're on Windows and probably caused a lot of people to stop reading before they even touched a line of Ruby code.