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(1) Does ModuleCopy, when automatically called from Object,  really get the a shallow copy of the object

as the first parameter in its parameter list? See below, which is copied directly from ?object,create. The

ModuleCopy has first argument new::Dollar but ModuleApply only passes its two arguments not three. I

couldn't find a reference to this feature in the docs.

Sometimes it is appealing to have a package export a procedure which does not show up when calling with().

For example, the procedure might be used elsewhere, but be otherwise so very technically obscure that nobody else would be interested. (The counter-argument is that what is good for the goose is good for the gander! If something else in Maple can make good use of it and need it, then you might too.)

Now, Maple's modules don't have the concept of "friends",...