I see what you’re saying, but I also haven’t ever used anything but the first two formats, and my goal was always readability not emphasis. Storing the AST ins

I see what you’re saying, but I also haven’t ever used anything but the first two formats, and my goal was always readability not emphasis. Storing the AST instead of the text is a lossy encoding, but would we lose something more valuable than what we gain? If your example is the best thing we’d lose - i’d say it’s still net a massive win. and there are ways to emphasize different parts, that would survive the roundtrip to AST. E.g. one way to emphasize depth: setValue([bar, glob], 1) setValue([bar, plu, a1], 21) or to emphasize the data: configure(bar, 1, 21, fol) Or heck you could allow style overides if you really wanted to preserve this kind of styling: // $formatblk: tabular_keypaths, aligned_assignments bar .glob = 1 bar .plu .a1 = 21 // $formatblk-end