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The relevant set is smaller and stranger. For task t at redaction level r , let be a finite partition of request-compatible completion classes . A class is a materially different, reasonable story a competent reader could tell about what the request permits: repair only the visible failure; repair the visible failure and preserve a compatibility convention; change a local abstraction; decline an unsafe change because the request is too ambiguous. Classes are defined by externally reviewable behavioral and scope differences, not by textual patch distance. Two patches that implement the same behavioral and scope story belong to one class. Two patches that both pass a visible…
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The relevant set is smaller and stranger. For task t at redaction level r , let be a finite partition of request-compatible completion classes . A class is a materially different, reasonable story a competent reader could tell about what the request permits: repair only the visible failure; repair the visible failure and preserve a compatibility convention; change a local abstraction; decline an unsafe change because the request is too ambiguous. Classes are defined by externally reviewable behavioral and scope differences, not by textual patch distance. Two patches that implement the same behavioral and scope story belong to one class. Two patches that both pass a visible test but make different compatibility promises do not.
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