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		zelphirkalt on March 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rye: Homoiconic dynamic programming language with ... Is this correct though? Lisp's quote would need some eval or something to evaluate later afaik. More fitting might be a (lambda () ...), a.k.a. lazy evaluation.

tsimionescu on March 24, 2024 | [–]

The implementation of the if() function would be the one that calls eval() on the true or false code block.

gumby on March 24, 2024 | [–]

Lambda is a special form

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