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The original formulation of DRY was:
"Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system."
Elimination of syntactic repetition is not an application of DRY, although application of DRY will often incidentally eliminate syntactic repetition.
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The original formulation of DRY was:
"Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system."
Elimination of syntactic repetition is not an application of DRY, although application of DRY will often incidentally eliminate syntactic repetition.