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Subject: Re: newbie questions: why doesn't ((lambda (x) (x 2)) (lambda (n)
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> ⎛⎞ Tahsin Alam <tahsin.alam@db.com>
> ⎝⎠ Fri, 30 May 2008 13:03:49 -0400
>
>    As the subject says - why does the following expression give
>    error when I try to evaluate it in the *scratch* buffer?
>
>    ((lambda (x) (x 2)) (lambda (n) (+ n 3)))
>
> One reason is because Emacs Lisp is not Scheme (sigh).
> You can try this, instead:
>
> (funcall (lambda (x) (funcall x 2)) (lambda (n) (+ n 3)))

The first funcall is unnecessary.

-- 
Johan Bockgård