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1st or 3rd?

On page 9 of “Metaprogramming Elixir” I came across, I think, an error. I thought for a long time whether to write about it or not, but I found a repetition of the same controversial idea in another author. Decided I needed to clear the matter up to the end.

Chris McArdv verbally describes the AST recursive structure:
"All Elixir code is represented as a series of three-element tuples with
the following format:

  • The first element is an atom denoting the function call, or another tuple,
    representing a nested node in the AST.
  • The second element represents metadata about the expression.
  • The third element is a list of arguments for the function call."

Here the author builds a recursive link in the complex AST through the first element, which cannot be: the recursive link is implemented in the third element.

This is easy to check in iex:
quote do 1 + 2 * 3 end
{:+, [context: Elixir, import: Kernel], [1,
{:*, [context: Elixir, import: Kernel], [2, 3]}]}

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