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What's wrong with text files?

• pxndx 8y ago
  Most of the ambiguity would be solved if you wrote an ast tree directly, like in scratch (or even lisp).
  • icebraining 8y ago
    There's no such thing as writing a conceptual entity like an AST "directly", you always have to use the mediation of some UI, be it text or a GUI. And you can definitively have ambiguous GUIs.
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  • externalreality 8y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngn2c/a_concept_for_editing_haskell_as_an_ast_rather/ https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngn2c/a_concept_fo... I would still consider the link above editing text... but I posted it anyway for what it is worth. The idea seems to be to confine the text to its AST in a form like fashion.