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+-- PROPOSED ALGORITHM FOR FINDING FUNCTIONS OF DEPENDENCIES
+-- - Find every unique function call in the template, filtering out all function
+--   calls that do not correspond to a dependency. For a dependency included as
+--   local dep = require("Module:Dependency"), the module is called "Dependency"
+--   and is called "dep" throughout the code. Function calls involving this
+--   dependency will have "dep" as part of the name, as dep(), dep.func(), or
+--   with any number of dots (dep.utils.formatter.func()), but zero or one dots
+--   is typical.
+-- - For each dependency name, place each function call with that dependency's
+--   name in a table of function calls.
+-- - Inspect each dependency's table. If there is at least one function call in
+--   that table, then that dependency is used. If not, then that module is not
+--   used.
+-- - If function calls match the name of the dependency "dep", then either the
+--   module returned a function or the code require("Module:Dep").func selected
+--   only one function. If it's the former, then the module IS the function. If
+--   it's the latter, then func from require("Module:Dep").func is the function.
+--   In either case, if no function calls called "dep" are found, then the
+--   dependency "dep" was not used.
 -- Inspects a module for its functions, its dependencies, and the functions used