> but this can't be made to work in a Common Lisp--or can it and I'm just not > doing it right? As I understand it, you have a different sort of quote than > CL, correct?
You can't write a lambda expression like that in Common Lisp, but as far as I know the quote function is the same. I guess it seems slightly different: Picolisp: : (quote (X Y) (+ X Y)) -> ((X Y) (+ X Y)) To get the same result in Common Lisp you have to use an extra set of parens: * (quote ((X Y) (+ X Y))) ((X Y) (+ X Y)) Otherwise you get a wrong number of arguments error. > (quote . any) -> any > Returns any unevaluated.... > > What does the dotted cons notation mean? I think the key take away of this for me is that EVERYTHING in PicoLisp is made out of cells. So you can express a type this way, any cell with quote in its car will return the entire cdr of the cell no matter what it is.
