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has an open delimiter, children, and a close delimiter. It represents
things like expressions and function definitions. See also 'atom'.
**Novel**: An addition or a removal. Syntax is novel if it only occurs
in one of two items being compared.
**Novel**: An addition or a removal. Syntax is novel if it occurs
in only one of the two items being compared.
**RHS**: Right-hand side. Difftastic compares two items, and RHS
refers to the second item. See also 'LHS'.
**Root**: A syntax tree without a parent node. Roots represent
top-level definitions in the file being diffed.
**Syntax node**: An item in difftastic's syntax tree structure. Either
an atom or a list.
**Token**: A small piece of syntax tracked by difftastic (e.g. `$x`,
`function` or `]`), for highlighting and aligned display. This is
either an atom or a non-empty delimiter.