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-Document that hook implementation arguments with default values are not passed by pluggy.
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@@ -595,12 +595,6 @@ To allow for *hookspecs* to evolve over the lifetime of a project,
 This allows for extending hook arguments (and thus semantics) without
 breaking existing *hookimpls*.
 
-Only arguments without default values are considered for this opt-in
-matching. Arguments with defaults in a *hookimpl* are treated as optional
-keyword arguments and are not passed by pluggy, even when the hook caller
-provides a value with the same name. If a *hookimpl* needs a value from the
-hook call, declare it without a default value.
-
 In other words this is ok:
 
 .. code-block:: python