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- adjective computing, programming Exhibiting metacircularity.
Etymologies
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meta- + circular
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Examples
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It was a classic "metacircular" interpreter written on top of Common Lisp, with a definite family resemblance to the eval function defined in McCarthy's original Lisp paper.
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Around II or III, I think it's time to go metacircular.
Planet TW 2008
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