From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-03T06:28:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I see method source code?

On 9/1/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> <disclaimer>No LISP guru here</disclaimer>
>
> I probably confused lambdas with normal functions:
>
> [1]> (setq f1 (lambda (x) (+ x x)))
> #<FUNCTION :LAMBDA (X) (+ X X)>
> [2]> (funcall f1 10)
> 20
> [3]> f1
> #<FUNCTION :LAMBDA (X) (+ X X)>
>
> So, for a lambda you can - but apparently for functions you can't.  Or
> can you?

I think that it just looks like the source here.  The print-name of a
lambda can look pretty much like source code because the internal
representation looks a lot like the source code. But it's not really
the source code.

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