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+Please title your PR as follows: `time: fix foo bar`
+
+Do not use # to generate C code. This feature will be removed in a couple of days.
+
+Squash commits into one if they all refer to one thing. Use `git rebase -i` for that.
+
+Before submitting a PR please run the tests with `make test`, and make sure V can still compile itself. Run this twice:
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+./v -o v
+./v -o v
+
+Thanks a lot for your contribution!