A different take on S-expressions

Re:A different take on S-expressions by tearflake on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:12PM (#44321596)

Actually it's quite simple. We parse from left to right. When we hit EOL, we return to the beginning of line and increase Y by one.

Blocks are parsed in the following way: when we get the beginning count of block opening characters, we move Y by one, loop right while whitespace, until we encounter ending count of block characters.

In transposed block, we just switch X and Y, it is easily done with pointers, and use the same code.

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Re:A different take on S-expressions by phoe-krk on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:31PM (#44332721)

    (fst-atom """   trd-atom frt-atom
      """     00001
      asdf    00002 """    fth-atom)
      qwer    00003 hahaha
      zxcv      """ hehehe
      """           hohoho
                    """

I'm not sure I'd like the above to be parseable.

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