Homoiconicity / Readability
Kind: tension
Record: tension:homoiconicity-readability
Canonical: Schema
"homoiconicity" (declarative-core layer) is traded against "Readability" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Readability" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Manifest-Based Design / Manifest Drift and before Code as Data / Safety/Debuggability.