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tsimionescu
on Aug 6, 2022
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Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data a...
Well, many LISP systems do compilation (and macroevaluation) at runtime as well, so there is really little distinction. That is, `compile' and `eval' are common functions in many LISP implementations, and they can be called like any other function.
eru
on Aug 7, 2022
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Yes, that's an interesting feature of Lisp.
You can do that in Haskell, too, but it's much, much less common.
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