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| <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./sequences.html#id1424">Intrinsic Metafunctions</a></h1> |
| <p id="label-sequences-intrinsic-metafunctions">The metafunctions that form the essential interface of sequence <a class="reference internal" href="./classes.html#label-sequences-classes">classes</a> |
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| from scratch for each new sequence class <a class="footnote-reference" href="#intrinsic" id="id175">[1]</a>.</p> |
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