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$\begingroup$ Thanks. It makes sense why your solution works. I still can't see why the other version fails. Your solution seems more general and should work in all cases. What is it about using a the original patter of just 'Rule' that allowed it to work at all on rules1? $\endgroup$

ebergerson
– ebergerson

2012-11-12 21:30:47 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2012 at 21:30
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$\begingroup$ It should be noted that while this solution works, it does so by taking advantage of the structure of rules2 (see FullForm or TreeForm) $\endgroup$

tkott
– tkott

2012-11-13 20:11:26 +00:00
Commented Nov 13, 2012 at 20:11

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