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– loki
Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 12:55
@loki ok, that makes sense. I thought it was best to link the general documentation for the library because maybe their API could change and make my example obsolete? But is it just best practice here to leave an example of using the library?
– Matt
Commented Feb 1, 2018 at 2:47

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