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		drdeca on Sept 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What if Git worked with programming languages? What do you call “an AST plus the additional information (such as whitespace info) needed to recover the original text the AST was parsed from” (if that has a name)? I think I saw it mentioned somewhere as having a name.

chrisoverzero on Sept 29, 2021 [–]

I’ve seen “concrete syntax tree,” delightfully.

drdeca on Sept 29, 2021 | [–]

Thanks, that term came up with good search results. I appreciate it.

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