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### 🌱 **Contributing to Gradle**

     * Both scenarios are bad: The output Future might never complete, or, if it does complete, it
     * might not run some of its listeners. The likely result is that the app will hang. (And of
     * course stack overflows are bad news in general. For example, we may have overflowed in the
     * middle of defining a class. If so, that class will never be loadable in this process.) The

            + "^\\s*irc:|" //
            + "^\\s*skype:|" //
            + "^\\s*about:|" + "^\\s*fscommand:|" //
            + "^\\s*aim:|" //
            + "^\\s*msnim:|" //
            + "^\\s*news:|" //
            + "^\\s*tel:|" //
            + "^\\s*unsaved:|" //
            + "^\\s*data:|" //
            + "^\\s*android-app:|" //
            + "^\\s*ios-app:|" //

The `name` parameter is **still required** (not *optional*) because it doesn't have a default value. Still, `name` accepts `None` as the value:

```Python
say_hi(name=None)  # This works, None is valid 🎉
```

The good news is, once you are on Python 3.10 you won't have to worry about that, as you will be able to simply use `|` to define unions of types:

{* ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial009c_py310.py hl[1,4] *}

<div style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;">Timothy Crosley - <strong><a href="https://github.com/hugapi/hug" target="_blank">Hug</a> creator</strong> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19455465" target="_blank"><small>(ref)</small></a></div>

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