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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.