The plain text to outlined code is pretty much what a compiler does. The proposal is akin to the idea of editing code as an AST rather than a textual representa

The plain text to outlined code is pretty much what a compiler does. The proposal is akin to the idea of editing code as an AST rather than a textual representation. Until our source control software supports the idea of seeing code files as more than just lines of text, this idea is likely to go nowhere IMO. It would be neat to see this in a RCS though. Imagine seeing a diff like: renamed foo() to bar() bar() changes: + if (baz) { ... } - if (quux) { ...}