That asterexasper bugged me too, so I invented my own footnote. 
*Well, the concrete syntax is anyway. Of course you could argue that the language itself is defined by its abstract syntax, and is more of a tree than a string.
That asterexasper bugged me too, so I invented my own footnote.
*Well, the concrete syntax is anyway. Of course you could argue that the language itself is defined by its abstract syntax, and is more of a tree than a string.