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<p>are an important special case in which a model is input to such a program.</p>

<p>Some bidirectional languages are <a href="page.php?w=Bijection">''bijective''</a>. The bijectivity of a language is a severe restriction of its power, because a bijective language is merely relating two different ways to present the very same information.</p>

<p>More general is a lens language, in which there is a distinguished forward direction ("get") that takes a concrete input to an abstract output, discarding some information in the process: the concrete</p><p>
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