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>What can you structure with besides syntax?

At the interface level, nested navigable fields.

>Even data structures in memory have a (binary) syntax

No, they don't. Syntax is the expression of structure through the arrangement of the contents of a single sequence. Data structures as they are typically realized express structure through the relationships between several sequences.



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