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After spending hours of debugging my program, I found that Collect threads over Rule. While the documentation (under Details and Options) says that it threads over "lists ... equations, inequalities and logic functions", Rule does not count (in my mind) as one of those.

In order to avoid any further unexpected behavior, I need to know exactly which heads Collect threads over. Does anyone know?

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    $\begingroup$ Does SystemOptions["AlgebraicThreadThroughHeads"] give what you need? $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 17:19
  • $\begingroup$ @kglr Yes! It does. Please add that as an answer, and also include how you knew where to find that information? $\endgroup$
    – QuantumDot
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 20:47

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SystemOptions["AlgebraicThreadThroughHeads"]

{"AlgebraicThreadThroughHeads" ->
{And, Equal, Greater, GreaterEqual, Implies, Inequality, Less, LessEqual, List, Nand, Nor, Not, Or, Rule, Unequal, Xor}}

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  • $\begingroup$ It was pure lock that I bumped into the option "AlgebraicThreadThroughHeads" while checking "SimplificationOptions" for this answer:) $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Jul 26, 2017 at 21:03

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