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Clarification on decode/encode and decodeUnknown/encodeUnknown Aliases

Hi. Why decode/encode are aliases to decodeUnknown/encodeUnknown? I thought the point of that API was to skip parsing if types ensure shape. Sorry if my question is silly.

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