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Meaning of homoiconicity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
/ˌhəʊ.məʊˌaɪ.kɒˈnɪ.sɪ.ti/

Definitions

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.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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