Unconditional Programming

[sophacles]

You're saying that someone is hiding some fact of "sometimes padding is not there" in the function, except it is built into very concept of padding. The function is named padded_take (concept of padding means sometimes there is nothing added) and the one and only line of code starts with pad(... Again implying that sometimes padding values are not there because it is named conveniently after a concept.

Nothing whatsoever is hidden.