From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 4290@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#4290: 23.1; (elisp)Anonymous Functions - unclear about #'
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:13:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6DD4D33E0F8047689FE8694B588D9789__18925.5555313595$1252736853$gmane$org@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87my50gbtq.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> > This Info node is unclear. It combines pre-Emacs 22 text that
> > explicitly says that lambda forms are *not* byte-compiled unless you
> > use `#'' or `function', with this statement that says that they are:
>
> > Nowadays it is possible to omit `function' entirely, like this:
> > (defun double-property (symbol prop)
> > (change-property symbol prop (lambda (x) (* 2 x))))
> > This is because `lambda' itself implies `function'.
>
> Thanks for spotting this.
>
> Hmm---is `function' still useful for anything?
At the very least it is needed for comptability with older Emacs versions. It
needs to be tolerated, at least.
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2009-09-12 6:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-09-12 19:41 ` bug#4290: 23.1; (elisp)Anonymous Functions - unclear about #' Stefan Monnier
2009-09-12 2:02 Chong Yidong
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2009-08-29 21:07 Drew Adams
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