Duplicate remover

# Self-authored for the EML case corpus (no external origin). Removes
# duplicates from a sample list while preserving first-seen order, using a
# dict as a hash-based "seen" tracker (`item => True` on first sight, `in`
# membership check thereafter) plus list growth via `+` (no `.append()`).
# A real Python `set` was tried first for "seen" tracking, but every way to
# grow one — `set(existing_list)` conversion or the `.add()` method — is an
# `eml:unsupported` construct the interpreter defers on entirely, which
# skips the `eml:equiv` equivalence check rather than just flagging an
# anomaly; a dict-as-set (a common pre-`set()` Python idiom) gives the same
# O(1) membership behavior while staying fully interpreter-modeled.

items^+["apple", "banana", "apple", "cherry", "banana", "date", "apple",
        "elderberry", "cherry", "fig"]

seen^+{}
result^+[]

for item in items:
    if not item in seen:
        True => seen[item]
        result + [item] => result

"Original: " + str(items) => msg1
msg1^0
"De-duplicated (order preserved): " + str(result) => msg2
msg2^0

items = ["apple", "banana", "apple", "cherry", "banana", "date", "apple", "elderberry", "cherry", "fig"]
seen = {}
result = []
for item in items:
    if not item in seen:
        seen[item] = True
        result = result + [item]
msg1 = "Original: " + str(items)
print(msg1)
msg2 = "De-duplicated (order preserved): " + str(result)
print(msg2)

Original: ['apple', 'banana', 'apple', 'cherry', 'banana', 'date', 'apple', 'elderberry', 'cherry', 'fig']
De-duplicated (order preserved): ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry', 'date', 'elderberry', 'fig']

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