From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:37:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20181108230125.GA2179@mail.akwebsoft.com> <87o9azoxdh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <20181109060302.GB2179@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20181109162201.GD2179@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541781393 17181 195.159.176.226 (9 Nov 2018 16:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 16:36:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 17:36:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9lj-0004L0-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:36:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9nq-00005R-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9nP-0008Tr-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:38:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9nL-00063f-9A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49215 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9nK-00062r-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:38:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gL9l8-0003Vh-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:35:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kdPQziYNNczV86jlC0iN0GhvZog= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118628 Archived-At: > That is exactly correct, yet I find nothing on this topic using > “first-class functions” as a keyword/phrase. I'm not sure exactly what kind of information you're looking for about that, but maybe other related keywords might be "indirect function call" (i.e. `funcall`) and "higher-order function" (which is the term used to denote the functions that manipulate other functions, such as `mapcar`). Stefan