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The solution is actually pretty straightforward: don't do everything with text. The actual content you want to manipulate, sure, do that with text. But there's
by sjolsen 12y ago
The solution is actually pretty straightforward: don't do everything with text. The actual content you want to manipulate, sure, do that with text. But there's no good reason to structure with syntax except that that solution is compatible with even the most arcane computer interfaces.
How you replace syntax-based structuring is the hard part, but it's not impossible.
- sukilot 12y agoWhat can you structure with besides syntax? Even data structures in memory have a (binary) syntax
- sjolsen 12y ago>What can you structure with besides syntax? At the interface level, nested navigable fields. >Even data structures in memory have a (binary) syntax No, they don't. Syntax is the expression of structure through the arrangement of the contents of a single sequence. Data structures as they are typically realized express structure through the relationships between several sequences.