Re: Naming FCRs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The current name stands for FunCallableRecords, but this name is clearly
  > wrong, since it makes it sound like I'm defining a special kind of
  > record that just happen to be callable as a function, whereas FCRs are
  > really fundamentally functions that happen to have slots and a type,
  > like records.

I think I understand what that means, but I'm not confident I do.
Would you please show us an example to make the meaning clear?

For instance, is this basically equivalent to a closure that you could
create with `lambda'?  If so, what is the benefit of adding this
construct?

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