metacircularity

Questions

What does metacircularity mean?

The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it interprets, and that exploits homoiconicity to reuse the existing facilities of the parent interpreter rather than reimplementing them.

Where does metacircularity come from?

From meta- + circularity.

How to pronounce metacircularity

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