On Sep 20, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

That, in a nutshell, is Lisp's key strength. It uses the same
structure for code as for data, which makes it very easy to add new
language features.


I assume that you refer to `eval' and the fact it operates on conses and symbols. Beyond the extremely contrived example of a metacircular interpreter, what are some examples of the benefits of this feature of lisp? What are some examples of language features that are easy to add?

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