Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?

他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者，而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序？

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You have to pass it as input to another function, as you'll see as possible in problem's Set One specification, but it's ultimately up to you.

你需要把它传给另一个函数当入参，就像你们将,在习题集1中可能看到的，但它最终取决于你。

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