Re: stuck re quote

2016-11-21 Thread Joe Bogner
Hi dean, It's not clear what you're asking. Does this help explain it? http://software-lab.de/doc/tut.html --- from the page --- 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). : ((

stuck re quote

2016-11-21 Thread dean
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