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Jan 25, 2022 at 04:23
Here's a fun example where a minimal syntactic diff is confusing. Difftastic has found `args` and `fty.ft_params` occurrences on the right, but it's not terribly useful! It's not even the same `args` as the right hand side is introducing a new binding.
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