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by Mikhail_Edoshin 601 days ago
A generic structure is not a notation. XML or S-expressions are a generic structure. A good practical test that shows limitations of this approach would be to try to write something like a picture description similar to Pikchr (PIC). It is possible, but the result will be far more verbose and obtuse than what you get with a real grammar and parser in Pikchr.