homoiconicity

English

Etymology

homoiconic (“self-representing”) +‎ -icity

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Noun

homoiconicity (uncountable)

  1. (programming) A property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.
    • 2010, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Semiotics of Programming, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 179:
      Homoiconicity is a feature of a programming language system that denotes that a computer program has the same form as the data that are input and output by the program.

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