Glossary

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Abbreviations

1. EF
   • Expression Function

Definitions

1. Expression Function
   • A function being passed as argument when creating a new BoolExpr using its constructors, and also follows the interface as specified here.
2. Boolean Expression
   • A BoolExpr instance. They are similar to Expressions but semantically different in that the latter does not neccessary have to be a product of a BoolExpr constructor.
3. BoolExpr Table
   • A table whose contents follow the specifications stated here and whose metatable is not BoolExpr. Also known as manually-constructed boolean expressions.
4. Expressions
   • The individual operands that together, compose a Boolean Expression. Note that BoolExpr Tables and Boolean Expressions qualifies for this definition too, since they can also be used to form much larger Boolean Expressions themselves.
5. Compilation
   • The process of reducing compound boolean operations into its simplified form

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