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Yep, I was sure it’s not an original idea. Though that particular link seems to be about a universal, language-agnostic syntax tree. Also interesting, but I wa
by mwsherman 14y ago
Yep, I was sure it’s not an original idea. Though that particular link seems to be about a universal, language-agnostic syntax tree.
Also interesting, but I wasn’t even intending to be that ambitious. I’d limit the scope to individual languages, and let those communities debate the ‘right’ serialization.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThe problem is one of cost benefit: the costs are high in terms of tooling while the benefits do not seem to be big enough. Intentional Software was a whole company founded on this idea and it hasn't really gone anywhere. There is a small trend back toward looking at structured editors; in that case you have no choice but to serialize a tree.