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homoiconic

homoiconic adjective: exhibiting homoiconicity.

Adjective

homoiconic (not comparable)

  1. Exhibiting homoiconicity.
    • Instead, the homoiconic paradigm draws from the mathematics of computability theory. […] In the case of a homoiconic programming language, the program processes itself, performing mechanical reductions on the application until there is nothing left except the answer.2015, Robert Fischer, Java Closures and Lambda, Apress, →ISBN, page 190
    • 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.2017, Eduardo Diaz, Shantanu Kumar, Akhil Wali, Clojure: High Performance JVM Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 392

Origin of homoiconic

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

Questions about homoiconic

What does homoiconic mean?
Homoiconic means exhibiting homoiconicity.
What part of speech is homoiconic?
Homoiconic is an adjective.

Words near homoiconic in the dictionary

  1. homohysterical
  2. homoi-
  3. Homoian
  4. Homoianism
  5. Homoians
  6. homoiconic
  7. homoiconicity
  8. homoimerous
  9. homoimmune
  10. homoimmunity
  11. homoing

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