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lonelappde
on Feb 12, 2020
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How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and ma...
It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters. Not because it makes
semantic
-invariant transformations.
yatac42
on Feb 12, 2020
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> It's called abstract syntax tree because the concrete syntax is not a tree, it's an list of characters.
It's called abstract syntax tree to distinguish it from parse trees (a.k.a. concrete syntax trees).
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