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adds additional explanation to :dip / ;~
commitd923a62f101cb3169257f03dc121d4e6bdfd4b62 authorJoseph Bryan <joemfb@gmail.com> dateThu 20 Jul 2017, 00:12 (9 years ago) parent29ed500
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5757`:dip` is often used in parsers, but is not only for parsers.
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59+This can be thought of as user-defined function composition; instead of simply
60+nesting the gates in `q`, each is passed individually to `p` with the product
61+of the previous gate, allowing arbitrary filtering, transformation, or
62+conditional application.
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5964## Syntax
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6166Regular: *1-fixed*, then *running*.