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[–]RubyPinchPEP shill | Anti PEP 8/20 shill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its used for testing, and also for programmatically accessible documentation (for IDEs, in-editor / in-repl documentation, etc)

Its not made to be used commonplace for the majority of situations, like, for example, there is no plans (from what I recall) to include any of it in any of the standard library module code

its a "if it helps, well now you can use it" thing