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The reason given in the documentation cited in the comment above is debatable. Read this section in DLMF https://dlmf.nist.gov/15.2#ii which deals with a similar case and says: "Because of the analytic properties [...] it is usually legitimate to take limits in formulas involving functions that are undefined for certain values of the parameters."

For instance Maple gives the same values as Maxima.