Homoiconicity

kazinator · on Jan 20, 2016

Biggest example there is Rebol, and a claim is made that Clojure is a dialect of Rebol. NPOV alarms going off.

srcerer · on Jan 20, 2016

If referring to this sentence: "Examples are the programming languages Clojure, which is a contemporary dialect of Lisp, Rebol and Refal." Perhaps it's just poorly worded, but the intention seems to be to list each of those languages as being homoiconic, with an aside that Clojure is a modern Lisp. Maybe some parenthesis are in order, heh ;)

dTal · on Jan 20, 2016

I added them :)

thesnider · on Jan 20, 2016

I think you're misreading that sentence. "Examples are the programming languages Clojure, which is a contemporary dialect of Lisp, Rebol and Refal.", which claims that Clojure is a dialect of lisp (indisputable), rather than Rebol. Rebol is just another example of a homoiconic language.

nickbauman · on Jan 20, 2016

Agreed. I just looked at http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-source.html

That does not look at all anything like a Lisp, let alone like Clojure.