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  • adjective computing, programming Exhibiting metacircularity.

Etymologies

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meta- +‎ circular

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Hundred-Year Language 2003

  • Around II or III, I think it's time to go metacircular.

    Planet TW 2008

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