From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look...
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:42:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjsnc9xcx8.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zo6hgiz1.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:23:08 -0400")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Samuel Padgett <spadgett1@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> writes:
>>> Are you really sure that (lambda ...) evaluates to (quote (lambda ...))
>>> rather than to (function (lambda ...))?
>>
>> I believe Paul's wrong here.
>
> Could be. I've been working from the C-h f documentation of function
> and lambda. But then, what's the use of function?
It is older than the self-quoting nature of lambda.
I see some code use it like
(apply (function some-function) args)
i.e. to quote symbols with a function binding.
I have no idea whether this results in better code though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-24 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 15:24 Josh Huber
2001-10-23 15:42 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-23 16:32 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-23 16:54 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-23 17:45 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-23 18:54 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-23 19:53 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 0:34 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-24 11:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-24 12:48 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-24 16:31 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 17:08 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-24 17:18 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-26 6:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-27 23:23 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-23 16:56 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-23 17:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-23 23:53 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-23 22:40 ` Davide G. M. Salvetti
2001-10-24 1:40 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 12:45 ` Davide G. M. Salvetti
2001-10-24 13:44 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-10-24 15:23 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 15:42 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2001-10-24 15:51 ` Samuel Padgett
2001-10-26 6:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-27 1:19 ` Barry Fishman
2001-10-29 14:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-27 22:27 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-24 1:59 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-24 15:02 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-24 16:48 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 17:13 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-25 1:52 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-24 16:13 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 17:19 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-24 17:28 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-24 17:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-25 1:45 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-25 18:48 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-29 21:58 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-29 22:19 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-29 22:31 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-30 2:47 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-30 3:11 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-30 3:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-30 12:55 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-30 15:31 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-31 13:44 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-31 17:28 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-31 17:51 ` Josh Huber
2001-10-31 18:22 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-26 6:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-26 9:07 ` Per Abrahamsen
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