On Jan 8, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated:
But the very next sentence says that "In a
homoiconic language the primary representation of programs is also a
data structure in a primitive type of the language itself", which is
not really related to the syntax programmers see and is the aspect
that's relevant to the conversation (or at least to what I understand
the conversation to be about).
By that definition, Forth is homoiconic then.
Yes, and similarly TECO. And in some sense Python (because Python byte code is an object
that has a number of semi-interesting methods).
paul