I think you could drop the first "base" and just say "the data inside your codebase" Generally speaking if declarative data can be factored out of part of my c

I think you could drop the first "base" and just say "the data inside your codebase" Generally speaking if declarative data can be factored out of part of my code, I try and do that (in practice I'm usually doing this in JS, which is well-suited to that style). This makes it less opinionated about when and where it gets executed, or even how. It is simply information. It also allows for some neat reflective stuff as the author describes. Incidentally this has always been the calling card of Lisp: "code as data". I don't love Lisp as a whole, personally, but this is a powerful benefit of it