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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 6:45:58 PM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote:

> Seems fine to me (good use of the null object pattern), although I
> might define _pass() to instead take exactly 1 argument, since that's
> all you ever call report() with in your example.

Oops, I over-simplified the calls to my report() function.  The truth is that report() can accept a variable argument list too.