ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Fexpr

Okay kiddo, are you ready to learn about fexpr? Fexpr stands for functional expression. It's like a magic word that tells the computer to do something special.

Imagine you have a toy box with different toys inside. Each toy does something different. When you want to play with a specific toy, you need to take it out of the toy box. Fexpr is like picking out a special toy from the toy box.

But instead of a toy box, we have a computer language called Lisp. In Lisp, there are regular expressions, which are like basic toys, and then there are fexprs, which are like special, magical toys. When you use a fexpr, you can do things that regular expressions can't do.

For example, imagine you have two numbers, 4 and 2. You want to add them together to get 6, but with a fexpr, you can do something like "plus four two", and the computer will understand that you want to add those numbers together.

Fexprs are special because they can change how the computer processes code, making it more flexible and powerful. However, because they are so powerful, they have to be used carefully and with a good understanding of how they work.

So there you have it, kiddo. Fexprs are like special toys that let you do magic things with computer code, but you have to use them carefully or else it could cause problems.