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+Thanks for the pull request!
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+By raising this pull request you confirm you are licensing your contributions under the project license (see LICENSE) and that you have no patents covering your contribution.
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+If you care, my PR preferences are at https://github.com/ndmitchell/neil#contributions, but they're all guidelines, and I'm not too fussy - you don't have to read them.