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homoiconic

adj

Etymology

From homo- (“self-”) + iconic (“representing”).

  1. derived from εἰκονικός
  2. borrowed from īconicus
  3. prefixed as homoiconic — “homo + iconic”

Definitions

  1. Exhibiting homoiconicity.

    • Clojure and other languages from the Lisp family are homoiconic. In a homoiconic language, the source code of a program is represented as a plain data structure.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homoiconic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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