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Isn't something like a DAG doable by indenting in a text editor? Why not?

• infinite8s 9y ago
  Each tree node only has one parent, which is easy to indicate through the indentation structure. In a DAG a node can have multiple parents - I'm not sure how this can be modeled with indentation.
• didgeoridoo 9y ago
  I can't visualize how you would represent a node with multiple inbound edges in text, but it could be because I'm only halfway through my first coffee. Can you demonstrate in a comment box?
  • jlgaddis 9y ago
    Graphviz's "dot" language supports this.
    • taeric 9y ago
      I think the confusion is that it sounded like the idea was without repetition.