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That's really interesting! I definitely could be sticking to a mental picture without realising. Curious if you're a lisper and have got used to reading that ki

• lispm 2y ago
  For me containment is important. (a (b)) -> (b) is inside a. Also that the whole form is enclosed in parentheses. If I move the mouse over a form, the whole form can be selected. (pipe (a 1 2 3) (b 4 5 6 7)) If I move over the second form, there is an argument, which is above it. My mental model is more based on tree evaluation, not so much on sequential evaluation. (b (a 1 2 3) 4 5 6 7) For me it's more important to see that all arguments to b are enclosed in a single form. If I want to move it around, I can easily select the whole form (with the mouse typically by a double click on the parentheses or a middle click). The list becomes a physical thing (-> manipulating lists), not so much a syntactical thing (dealing with the syntax of a pipe operator). But then I'm used to Lisp environments with a higher code complexity (longer code with deeper nesting, lots of macros) and support for that.