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It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters. Not because it makes semantic-invariant transformations
by lonelappde 7y ago
It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters. Not because it makes semantic-invariant transformations.
- yatac42 7y ago> It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters. It's called abstract syntax tree to distinguish it from parse trees (a.k.a. concrete syntax trees).