Abstract syntax tree


abstract syntax tree
compiler
(ast) a data structure representing something which has been p-rs-d, often used as a compiler or interpreter’s internal representation of a program while it is being optimised and from which code generation is performed. the range of all possible such structures is described by the abstract syntax.
(1994-11-08)

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