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+// A function that returns exactly what it was given.
+pub fn identity(a: a) -> a { a }
+
+// A function that, given two values, ignores one and always returns the other.
+pub fn always(_a: a, b: b) -> b { b }
+
+// Takes a function that takes two arguments and returns a new function that
+// takes the same two arguments, but in reverse order.
+pub fn flip(fun: fn(a, b) -> c) -> fn(b, a) -> c {
+  fn(b, a) { fun(a, b) }
+}
+
+// Takes two functions and chains them together to form one function that takes
+// the input from the first and returns the output of the second.
+pub fn compose(fun1: fn(a) -> b, fun2: fn(b) -> c) -> fn(a) -> c {
+  fn(a) { fun1(a) |> fun2 }
+}