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"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> writes:

> Ok for '(lambda).  But what's the point in writing #'(lambda ...) if
> (lambda ...) already evaluates to it (being lambda a macro)?  Is that
> some kind of stylistic convention, or there is really something more?

There's certainly a difference between ' and #': If you quote an
expression using ', it is not byte compiled, but if you use #', it is.
There's a section in the Elisp manual ('Anonymous Functions') which
explains the difference in more detail.