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Comment by zmonx

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-a...

parent zmonx 8 years ago

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