From: theschof@... (TheSchof)
Date: 2002-01-19T02:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc.class vs yield

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
>(Just wondering: is there similar debate about the lambda keyword [or
>function, or whatever it is] in Lisp?)

The lambda symbol was no longer required in ANSI CL since functions are not
represented internally as lists anymore, so they could have decided to allow
((x) (+ x 1)) as easily as (lambda (x) (+ x 1)).  But it was kept for
readability and tradition.  As a bonus the symbol-function of the lambda symbol
is set to a macro that will reorganize (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) to #'(lambda (x) (+
x 1)) for you.

Alexander Schofield