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+Guidelines for language-independent tests (as much as possible!):
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+- Functions (e.g., model() and Enum()) have argument lists, even if blank.  Add the parentheses to distinguish them from variables.
+- Floating points numbers should have decimal points.  Expressions without decimals (e.g. 2/7) can evaluate incorrectly.
+- Make indentation consistent in appearance as well as content (e.g., don't mix tabs and equivalent number of spaces).
+- Separate statements on separate lines are more general.
+- Be careful with vectors vs. column arrays (unfortunately Matlab does not distinguish).
+- Be careful with variable names that might be reserved words in other languages (e.g. "list").
+- Weird shortcuts for a particular language are not very general.
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