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AI-generatedAmbiguous undefined return in _.get for missing paths
The documented silent-miss behavior of _.get returns undefined when a traversed path does not exist, yet the same value is returned when a key is explicitly set to undefined. This creates an ambiguity for callers attempting to distinguish path absence from explicit undefined assignment without supplying a default argument. The behavior is intentional per the
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