dm_0ney

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   by dm_0ney 5y ago

   Yeah slurping and barfing in Paredit are quite similar to basic restructuring operations in tylr, eg selecting a parenthesis and moving it somewhere else. Some differences: (1) In tylr you move the parenthesis itself, rather than making the
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   by dm_0ney 5y ago

   Reasonable question given the usual approach to structure editors, which have users directly modify the AST. tylr adopts a more indirect approach, where your program is presented in an alternate (modal) tile-based syntax with its own syntax
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   by dm_0ney 5y ago

   Yeah! For one thing, tylr makes it possible to make sub- and cross-structural selections, which isn't possible in other structure editors. Try typing `2 + 3 * 4` in MPS and selecting `* 4` or even `2 + 3`—you can't because they do