People will inevitably complain that what you're advocating for involves too much duplication, but I've independently reached the same conclusion that you have.

People will inevitably complain that what you're advocating for involves too much duplication, but I've independently reached the same conclusion that you have. Besides, in a good LP system, the toolchain would be able to consume the second part and transform and emit the first part. See also this conversation about the unreadability of Knuth's .web files: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203798#29205840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203798#29205840>