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The optional <code>&lt;-</code> operator specifies the channel <i>direction</i>,
<i>send</i> or <i>receive</i>. If a direction is given, the channel is <i>directional</i>,
otherwise it is <i>bidirectional</i>.
A channel may be constrained only to send or only to receive by
<a href="#Assignment_statements">assignment</a> or
explicit <a href="#Conversions">conversion</a>.
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    `GRUCell`, and a number of other cells. These now reside in `tf.nn.rnn_cell`
    (with aliases in `tf.contrib.rnn` for backwards compatibility). The original
    `tf.nn.rnn` function is now `tf.nn.static_rnn`, and the bidirectional static
    and state saving static rnn functions are also now back in the `tf.nn`
    namespace.

    Notable exceptions are the `EmbeddingWrapper`, `InputProjectionWrapper` and