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Text means a sequence of characters conforming to some character encoding. Yoric's binary AST is not a sequence of characters conforming to a character encoding.

Compilation maps a program in a higher level language to a program in a lower level language. The map is not required to be one-to-one: the colloquial term for this is "lossy."



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