From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unsure of error in passing an anonymous function to another function Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32685293-8799-459d-8a4a-bb326a160c1b@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439694619 13786 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2015 03:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:10:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 05:10:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQoKv-0005Zc-ML for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 05:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQoKu-0002Wf-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:10:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.140.233.80 with SMTP id e77mr34661947qhc.1.1439694347997; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:05:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.62.68 with SMTP id w4mr153510igr.12.1439694347879; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!y105no792810qge.1!news-out.google.com!nt1ni8380igb.0!nntp.google.com!se8no4540796igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.53.178; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.53.178 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:05:47 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214337 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106621 Archived-At: On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:27:04 AM UTC+5:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2015-08-15 21:44 -0500, Grant Rettke wrote: > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Elisp is not Scheme (sadly). Function bindings are separate from > variable bindings. To use the function binding you need funcall (which > see in the docs). Funcall is the solution The problem is elisp is a lisp-2; See http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html