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Please note that the creators of Julia no longer call it homoiconic [1]. The fact that you can access the AST in a language is not sufficient to make it homoic
by zmonx 9y ago
Please note that the creators of Julia no longer call it homoiconic [1].
The fact that you can access the AST in a language is not sufficient to make it homoiconic. There are several programming languages like Julia that let you access the AST yet are not (conventionally) considered homoiconic.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-are-languages-like-elixir-and-julia-homoiconic https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...
- kkylin 9y agoOh, I didn't realize that. Thanks!