# Homoiconicity

Record: `arch:homoiconicity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Severity: contextual
Scope: language, metaprogramming
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#arch-homoiconicity

## Repair

- Refactored by: Use AST/DSL/Macro Representation
- Detected by: language capability check
- Violated by: code transformed as strings where the language offers a code-as-data form
- Measured by: macro/code-as-data usage
- Enforced by: language/tooling constraints

## requires

- [Code-as-Data Representation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/code-as-data-representation.md)

## reinforces

- [Metaprogramming](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/metaprogramming.md)

## enables

- [Macro Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/macro-systems.md)
- [DSLs](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/dsls.md)

## conflicts-with

- [Opaque Syntax Trees](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/opaque-syntax-trees.md)

## tensions-with

- [Readability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/readability.md)

## tensions

- [Homoiconicity Readability](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/homoiconicity-readability.md)

## referenced-by

- [Code as Data](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/code-as-data.md)