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Hi what is the general purpose of this language? #79

Closed Joe23232 closed 3 years ago

Joe23232 commented 3 years ago

I wanted to know is this an interpreted language or compiled language?

bjorn3 commented 3 years ago

Rowan is not a language itself. It is a library that can be used to represent CST's for languages. CST stands for concrete syntax tree. Unlike AST (abstract syntax tree), a CST represents the parsed text in a lossless way. It includes every piece of whitespace and contains enough information to get the original input text even in case of syntax errors.