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Could you explain why you think Scala is not homoiconic?

I checked a few common definitions of homoiconicity and it seems like Scala is within the ruleset.

How do you figure? What scala data type is scala source code?

Those types from scala.reflect.

No it isn't. Those tell you what types the values represent. We're talking about the actual source code itself. In lisp, the source code is itself a perfectly ordinary lisp value. That is what homoiconicity is. That is not something scala has, nor is it something scala wants to or claims to have.

> In lisp, the source code is itself a perfectly ordinary lisp value.

Isn't quoting necessary to "reify"/refer to the actual code as data?

Yes?

So what's the difference then? I need to quote in Lisp, I need to quote in Scala.

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