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You can't natively index into a string and get any C syntactic token out of it besides a char.

• eru 2mo ago
  You can write some library functions to get you more sophisticated indexing, if that's what you want.
  • Zambyte 2mo ago
    The fact that you can write a C parser in C does not make C homoiconic. Not needing to have a user level parser is like, the whole thing that makes homoiconicity interesting.
    • eru 2mo ago
      You can produce a variant of C, call it C', that has the parser in the standard library.
      • Zambyte 2mo ago
        And then everyone would have a user level parser instead of a homoiconic variant of C.