If JavaScript represents its source as a string, and a string is a primitive data type in JS, and eval(string) evaluates a program... 1/
@deech "no cheating with strings" is begging the question! I'm saying strings satisfy the eval(source) requirement.
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@wycats I think I get your point that homoiconic is fuzzy. Clearly there's a spectrum between "I look like myself" and "I can eval myself". -
@deech yeah I think the term adds more heat than light. -
@deech it also doesn't provide a good framework for understanding the importance of http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2371420 …, which is sad. -
@deech but "to make macros, I need read(JS) but it's hard" does.
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