From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lisp.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:43:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <joswig-DAA9CF.05430408102007@news-europe.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47098474$0$24258$4c368faf@roadrunner.com
In article <47098474$0$24258$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"." <foo@bar.biz> wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:27:20 +0000, David Rush wrote:
> > Makes it sound like there are two fundamentally different *types* of
> > values And FUNCALL and FUNCTION are the type cast operators between
> > those types. Is this a valid way of looking at this?
> >
> > david rush
>
> An expression needs a symbol as it's car. If the symbol has a
> function-value, that function is called. If you want to call a function
> that isn't bound to a symbol, you use FUNCALL. In pseudo-scheme
> is might be defined is (lambda (f args) (f args)). FUNCTION is the accessor
> for the function-value of a symbol.
Which language are you talking about? Certainly not Common Lisp.
--
http://lispm.dyndns.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 3:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-07 5:34 Nested Lambda function gives error in common lisp, guile, emacs lisp but works in scheme. Why? gnuist006
2007-10-07 5:36 ` gnuist006
2007-10-07 7:55 ` David Rush
2007-10-07 11:04 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-07 11:02 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-07 23:27 ` David Rush
2007-10-08 1:14 ` .
2007-10-08 3:43 ` Rainer Joswig [this message]
2007-10-08 2:58 ` William D Clinger
2007-10-08 6:42 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-08 20:33 ` namekuseijin
2007-10-08 20:48 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-08 19:05 ` Don Geddis
2007-10-08 6:39 ` Pascal Costanza
2007-10-08 0:09 ` Matthias Benkard
2007-10-08 12:24 ` Barry Margolin
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