May 15, 2003

flatten

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:47 AM

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