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From homoiconic (“self-representing”) + -icity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
From homoiconic (“self-representing”) + -icity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.