Re: Tree-sitter api

[Phil Sainty]

On 2022-04-01 01:46, John Yates wrote:
> As pointed out previously, the important concept
> here is "tree" not "sitting".  "trees" is shorter and
> perhaps more suggestive.

Unfortunately "tree" is an extremely generic term and on
its own doesn't suggest the very specific functionality
provided by tree-sitter.

"trees" just looks like the plural of "tree" rather than
"tree"+"s"[itter], and so I would expect that to be for
manipulating some general-purpose tree data structures
before I thought of "an incremental parsing library" for
programming languages.

Conversely the "sit" part of the name, whilst not
suggestive of being connected with trees of some kind,
*is* very suggestive of the actual library which is being
integrated.

I.e. tree-sitter itself may not* be about "sitting"; but
the Emacs integration is very specifically about a thing
called "tree-sitter" rather than just about trees.

(*) Or maybe it is.  I don't understand that part of the
name (and I can't find any documentation explaining it)
-- but it *is* the name.


-Phil