Re:So You Want to Write Your Own Language (2014)
by TeMPOraL on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:07PM
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There is no "concrete" AST that's not a "serialization format". A binary AST is also a serialization of AST.
Lisp source is pretty much as close to AST as you can get while still staying in text-land. That said, experienced Lisp developers often use tools like Paredit mode that let them navigate and edit the code in terms of tree nodes, not characters.
Lisp source is pretty much as close to AST as you can get while still staying in text-land. That said, experienced Lisp developers often use tools like Paredit mode that let them navigate and edit the code in terms of tree nodes, not characters.