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2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
flatten
2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
vt. [common] To remove structural information, esp. to filter something with
an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to
imply mapping to flat-ASCII. This code flattens an expression with
parentheses into an equivalent canonical form.