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A Strategy is a function that embodies a parallel evaluation strategy. The function traverses (parts of) its argument, evaluating subexpressions in parallel or in sequence.

A Strategy may do an arbitrary amount of evaluation of its argument, but should not return a value different from the one it was passed.

Parallel computations may be discarded by the runtime system if the program no longer requires their result, which is why a Strategy function returns a new value equivalent to the old value. The intention is that the program applies the Strategy to a structure, and then uses the returned value, discarding the old value. This idiom is expressed by the using function.