clarify redirection in ops
State: closed

core.ops involves a _lot_ of redirection.  This decreases some of that redirection (and some redundancy) by implementing functions that show the logic of how some of the args/kwargs are chosen.  The goal is to make it so future debugging can be done without going through `func.im_func.func_closure[1].cell_contents.func_closure...`

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name: Internals
description: Related to non-user accessible pandas implementation
name: Clean

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>  any idea what masker is for, can remove?

It's a fill value used for Series comparisons.  The only place it is used ATM is in _comp_method_SERIES, where it defaults to False and is passed as True for `__ne__`.
ping on green. I still have to check that the doc-strings are unchanged from previous though.
ping
thanks!