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by nightski
4061 days ago
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No. There is a large difference between parsing commands which affect the structure of a program and directly parsing the structure itself. For one, commands that affect the structure in an invalid way can be rejected. Second, commands can be stored so that a history of source code manipulations can be replayed (which while possible via text ala git is very lossy and subject to merge issues - as stated in the article). In addition, commands are limited by context. So when parsing the user's input we now have a limited context to work within greatly improving accuracy and also simplifying the input space of the user. These are just a few of the reasons... |
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