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Choice Points

When combining multiple clauses into a procedure, they are connected via the try_me_else, retry_me_else, trust_me or, equivalently, the try, retry, trust instructions (see sections 3 and 4). Such a choice point is abstractly represented by an oval with (left-to-right ordered) outgoing arrows:

If all sub-DAXes are just clauses, the following abbreviation is used:


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