Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but let me first make sure I understand. Is the reason that we > do not want _any_ symbol as car of the list that forbidding _any_ > symbol as car of the list actually seems _more natural_ than just > forbidding lambda? It seems that any symbol other than lambda can not > be mistaken for the car of an anonymous lambda expresion and hence > could not lead to ambiguity.
One possible reason is that if we allow almost all symbol lists, people will tend to overlook the need for a `lambda' special case, write their code to use straight-forward symbol lists -- and odd bugs will arise when lambda does happen to occur at the beginning of such a list. Always requiring an initial "" forces the problem to be dealt with, so will make such code more robust. -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
