RE: Architectural Forms, separation of formatting and loose-leaf management

["Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Much of the benefit of
>groves is simply that the abstract interface to them is standardized.
>This means that both grove-generic and property-set-specific
>applications can be written such that they are insulated from the
>actual storage implementation of the data they access.

Isn't this the _only_ benefit?  As far as I can see, the only significant
difference between a grove and a(n abstract syntax) tree is that groves have
a mechanism for representing references.  The grove API itself can be
defined for any AST.

--FC



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