Meta-circular evaluator

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A meta-circular evaluator is a special case of a self-interpreter in which the existing facilities of the parent interpreter are directly applied to the source code being interpreted, without any need for additional parsing. Meta-circular evaluation is only possible in homoiconic languages.

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