There is not 2 different kinds of code. That's like saying Lisp has normal code and list code.

> There is not 2 different kinds of code

In Python in relation to ast, it does seem so yeah.

If you add two numbers in Python code, it looks like `1 + 1`, but if you use the module from `Lib/ast.py` linked above, how would it look like? I think it would be something like `Expression(body=BinOp(left=Name(id='x',ctx=Load()),op=Add(),right=Name(id='y', ctx=Load())))` which at a glance, certainly looks different than `1 + 1` in my eyes :)

In lisps, `(+ 1 1)` is just `(+ 1 1)` regardless if it's source code or AST, they're just the same thing.

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charcircuit 4 days ago | parent [-]

(cons '+ (cons 1 (cons 1 nil))) doesn't look like (+ 1 1).

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diggan 4 days ago | parent [-]

What about `(+ 1 1) or (quote (+ 1 1)) then?

	▲	charcircuit 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think you are missing my point. My point is that manually building AST data structures instead of taking them from existing code looks different in Lisp too.