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8181 ### Some Explanations ###
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83 The syntax `A > B` can be read as `A has occurred more recently than B`.
83 The syntax `A > B` can be read as "`A` has occurred more recently than `B`".
8484 If `A` has occurred but `B` has never occurred, `A > B` is still true;
8585 however, if neither event has ever occurred, both `A > B` and `B > A` are
8686 false.
128128 event Baz, caused after Foo.
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130130 After `Foo` happens, `Baz > Bar` should be true.
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132 (The `2iota` interpreter does not yet implement this guarantee, but I don't
133 think that will stop me from releasing it.)
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135 ...we can say with certainty that, after all the consequents of `Foo` have
136 happened, `Baz > Bar`; so maybe there is a place for `caused before`.
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138132 Some words on the purpose of `caused before` are in order. In the original
139133 vision, `after` and `by` were synonyms, but `before` was meant to actually
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291285 There is a crude implementation of β-Juliet version 1.0 in the form of a
292 Perl 5 script. It does not implement delays.
286 Perl 5 script. It does not implement delays, but it does implement the
287 ordering guarantees between `caused before` and `caused after`.
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294289 The reference implementation of β-Juliet version 2.0, called `2iota`, is
295290 written in C. It implements delays (when compiled as ANSI C they have