A set of cleanups
the first few commits should be fairly uncontroversial, the tricky ones start after hid: switch the collections array to a dict, please see the commit messages for the long writeups.
cc @bentiss
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the first few commits should be fairly uncontroversial, the tricky ones start after hid: switch the collections array to a dict, please see the commit messages for the long writeups.
cc @bentiss