Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
by ImprobableTruth on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:30PM
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How is this not just S-expressions with indentation instead of parentheses? What makes it different from say Sweet Expressions?
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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
by breck on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:47PM
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Common question. You cannot do column and matrix operations natively against S-Expressions (You need to parse the whole thing). This turns out to be very important and useful. S-Expressions need to be transversed in 1-D linear order.
When you two-dimensionalize S-Expressions and remove the parens, you get Tree Notation.