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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 December 2013 05:26:57AM 2 points [-]

Yes, a hint is an ambiguous request, agreed.
As to whether it's efficient or not, that depends a lot on what outputs we're measuring.
Ambiguity is often valuable.