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Re: Lambda in macrolet becomes a closure? (another breaking change in em


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Lambda in macrolet becomes a closure? (another breaking change in emacs:))
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:01:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> [...] To quote a value, you want to use `quote` rather than
> `function`.  `function` can only be used reliably to quote a "function
> expression" rather than a function value.  A function expression is
> basically either a symbol (the name of a function), or a sexp of the
> form (lambda <args> <body>).

Shouldn't the docstring of `function':

| Like `quote', but preferred for objects which are functions [...]

then better speak of (function) expressions instead of `objects'?


Michael.




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