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I think if this were the case, we would have quickly moved on from storing source code as text, and begun storing it as ASTs which could be 'viewed' in any loca
by widdershins 11mo ago
I think if this were the case, we would have quickly moved on from storing source code as text, and begun storing it as ASTs which could be 'viewed' in any localised version of the programming language. This may have had wider benefits than just reading source code in your preferred language.
- zozbot234 11mo agoYou can serialize ASTs very easily as S-expressions, or slightly fancier versions thereof. That's still "text" and quite easily readable by humans, but somewhat less oriented to direct editing.
- scotty79 11mo agoI would love for the block delimiters to be also a preference, like the language in that world. I'd edit every language with Python style blocks.