It turns out I was not the only one with the problem. I am reading through the contributed V7 version of HeikenAshi_Smoothed, and it has both problems. As with me, the author (probably) never noticed because of the related bug that the build does not error out on a description string expression -- it just silently fails to generate updated Magic Code at the bottom. I have sent him email detailing the problems.
I wonder how much other code is silently building wrong?
--EV
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