homoiconic

English

Etymology

From homo- (“self-”) +‎ iconic (“representing”).

Adjective

homoiconic (not comparable)

1. (programming, of a language) Exhibiting homoiconicity.
   • 2015, Robert Fischer, Java Closures and Lambda, Apress, →ISBN, page 190:

     Instead, the homoiconic paradigm draws from the mathematics of computability theory. […] In the case of a homoiconic programming language, the program processes itself, performing mechanical reductions on the application until there is nothing left except the answer.

   • 2017, Eduardo Diaz, Shantanu Kumar, Akhil Wali, Clojure: High Performance JVM Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 392:

     Clojure and other languages from the Lisp family are homoiconic. In a homoiconic language, the source code of a program is represented as a plain data structure.