doc: document "flat" util.inspect signature #23205

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3. BridgeAR commented on Oct 2, 2018

   

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   I don't think that it is a good API signature and documenting it would go in the wrong direction.
4. refack commented on Oct 2, 2018

   

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   I don't think that it is a good API signature and documenting it would go in the wrong direction.

   I think we should either deprecate or document.
   From #22753 and #22751 it seems like there is no consensus for deprecation, so IMHO we need to document this.
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