Eliding Implementation Detail Makes a Grammar Readable Again
Experiment – Projectional Viewer
A one-way projectional viewer experiment: instead of removing implementation detail from code, it toggles that detail out of view in the editor. Using an Emacs Lisp file written by Claude Sonnet 5 Code, a buffer is piped through a T2T pipeline built on OhmJS parsing and RWR rewrite rules, which strips copy clauses and action blocks from a Rebol phone-number grammar. Toggling is nearly instant, and the elided grammar reads better than the annotated original.
This experiment asks whether implementation detail can be elided from code, rather than removed. The detail stays in the source; it's just toggled out of view in the editor.