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Symmetries in Boolean Scan


Array languages like APL are famous for using many pretty squiggles for representing built-in functions. These are called "primitives" and are different from user-defined functions, because the interpreters know about them and can do fancy optimizations with them, like recognizing special combinations [1].

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