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Concrete syntax

<language> The concrete syntax of a language including all the features visible in the source program such as parentheses and delimiters.

The concrete syntax is used when parsing the program or other input, during which it is usually converted into some kind of abstract syntax tree.

Compare: abstract syntax.

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