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| _Cycles_ | |
| # Cycles in fields | |
| Also, we know that unifying a field with itself will result in the same value. | |
| Thus if we have a cycle between some fields, all we need to do is ignore | |
| the cycle and unify their values once to achieve the same result as | |
| merging them ad infinitum. | |
| <!-- CUE editor --> | |
| _cycleref.cue:_ | |
| ``` | |
| labels: selectors | |
| labels: {app: "foo"} | |
| selectors: labels | |
| selectors: {name: "bar"} | |
| ``` | |
| <!-- result --> | |
| `$ cue eval cycleref.cue` | |
| ``` | |
| labels: {app: "foo", name: "bar"} | |
| selectors: {app: "foo", name: "bar"} | |
| ``` |