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NooneAtAll3today at 12:18 AM1 replyview on HN

what do you mean by idempotent and colpike?


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estebanktoday at 2:25 AM

Idempotent as in if the token stream in the input doesn't change, the cached result of the previous macro expansion is used during incremental, instead of being pessimistic and rerunning the macro.

Colpike as in compile typo.