Questions in LSTM tutorial

[NeroBlackstone]

In section Using the @compact API:

x_init, x_rest = Iterators.peel(Lux._eachslice(x, Val(2)))

I don't quite understand this line of code. What does Val(2) do here?

[avik-pal]

It is same as the dims kwarg in eachslice, but passing in Val(2) for type-stability