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I’m not sure, but possible legibility? Like if you have a bunch of nested nodes it’s nice to be able to see where one ends at a glance.


Decent indenting generally helps there (and siblings are often of the same type anyway, in which case it doesn't improve indistinguishability).

Beyond that syntax highlighting and marcation of the head and tail of the currently selected tree can improve things when you're manually editing a document.




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