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"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> PJ> '(lambda ...) does not get byte-compiled.  (function (lambda ...))
> PJ> does, and otherwise means the same thing.
> 
> Ok for '(lambda).  But what's the point in writing #'(lambda ...) if
> (lambda ...) already evaluates to it (being lambda a macro)?

'(lambda ...) is equivalent to (lambda ...).  (function (lambda ...))
also returns the same value, but the byte-compiler descends into
(function ...).  (quote ...) forms are left uncompiled.  For the code
to be byte-compiled, we have to use (function ...).


paul