Hi dean,
It's not clear what you're asking. Does this help explain it?
http://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html
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Anonymous functions without the lambda keyword
There's no distinction between code and data in PicoLisp, quote will
do what you want (see also this FAQ entry).
: ((
I could do with some help understanding step by step what's happening here...
Intuitively I can see that 9 squared is 81 but I can't really see,
precisely, what this was doing
((quote (X) (* X X)) 9)
-> 81
so I put it in a function in a file to trace it
(de go ()
((quote (X) (* X X)) 9)
)
but