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wikidiscuss@lojban.org scripsit:

> goi unifies its two arguments so that they refer to the same thing. If
> one is defined and the other isn't, the undefined one gets the meaning
> of the defined one. If both are undefined, they are linked to refer
> to the same undefined thing, which may be assigned later. If both are
> defined, using goi is an error.

The difficulty with this view (which is CLL's) is that it doesn't say how
to redefine anything. If ko'a and ko'e were both defined some time back,
then ko'a goi ko'e could mean "redefine ko'e as ko'a" or vice versa.
We need to provide for at least a weak preference order in such a case.

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