Symbolic Expression (s-expression - sexprs - sexps)

Symbolic Expression (s-expression - sexprs - sexps)

Symbolic Expression (s-expression - sexprs - sexps) are a notation for nested list (tree-structured) data, invented for and popularized by the programming language Lisp. also used in text-format WebAssembly

s-expressions are used to represent both:

  • source code
  • data