On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 12:41:51PM -0500, John Duncan wrote: > Yeah, it's explained in the reference manual: > ... > In contrast to other Lisp implementations, the symbol LAMBDA itself does > not exist in PicoLisp but is implied from context. > ... > Hope this helps a bit. Alex would probably have a lot more to say.
Thanks John! No, you explained it very well :) One minor note: > Picolisp is dynamically scoped. I would not use the term "scoped" here. Scope is about visibility, so PicoLisp symbols are globally scoped (per namespace, or per file for transient symbols). Instead, symbols in PicoLisp are *bound* dynamically (as opposed to statically (or lexically) bound symbols in compiled Lisps). In a compiler, the distinction between scope and binding is blurred, because the symbols are gone in the compiled code anyway. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
