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As the title states, I want to reject an AST with function calls. This seems to work, is there a better way?
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As the title states, I want to reject an AST with function calls. This seems to work, is there a better way?
@invalid_ast_ops [:....
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Assume I have an AST fragment with some unbound variables:
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