Thanks, and I probably should have said, "car and cdr of a cell" rather than a list. Oh well ;)
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:16 PM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > 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 > -- John Duncan
