A tree representation of a program's grammatical structure produced by a compiler's parsing stage, with each node standing for a construct in the source code such as an expression, statement or declaration, stripped of the concrete punctuation the parser already consumed.
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Core PrincipleIt is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of text (often source code) written in a formal language. Each node of the tree denotes a construct occurring in the text. 1 Connections
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1. Abstract syntax tree, Wikipedia
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It is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of text (often source code) written in a formal language. Each node of the tree denotes a construct occurring in the text.
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