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Homoiconicity

• kazinator 11y ago
  Biggest example there is Rebol, and a claim is made that Clojure is a dialect of Rebol. NPOV alarms going off.
  • nickbauman 11y ago
    Agreed. I just looked at http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-source.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-source.html That does not look at all anything like a Lisp, let alone like Clojure.
  • thesnider 11y ago
    I think you're misreading that sentence. "Examples are the programming languages Clojure, which is a contemporary dialect of Lisp, Rebol and Refal.", which claims that Clojure is a dialect of lisp (indisputable), rather than Rebol. Rebol is just another example of a homoiconic language.
  • srcerer 11y ago
    If referring to this sentence: "Examples are the programming languages Clojure, which is a contemporary dialect of Lisp, Rebol and Refal." Perhaps it's just poorly worded, but the intention seems to be to list each of those languages as being homoiconic, with an aside that Clojure is a modern Lisp. Maybe some parenthesis are in order, heh ;)
    • dTal 11y ago
      I added them :)