Re: executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to

>Yes, you should really try to understand Lisp's evaluation mechanisms. I agree. (eval Lst) and apply look just the job for this...Thank you for these. Best Regards Dean On 20 January 2017 at 20:57, Alexander Burger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 07:20:36PM +, dean

Re: executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 07:20:36PM +, dean wrote: > I just came back to say that the above worked well for both strings and > numbers entered directly as the passed functions argument but not (it seems > :) ) for when the argument is supplied in a symbol. eval might well cope > with that and

Re: executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to

This is how I did it where the argument to the canned/passed in function is supplied as a symbol... (de x2 (Num) (setq Res (* Num 2))) (de fnfn (Canned_fn) #(setq X (car (cdr Canned_fn))) ((car Canned_fn) (eval X))) #replaced by single stage... ((car Canned_fn) (eval (car (cdr

Re: executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to

Thank you Alex...that's great. I just came back to say that the above worked well for both strings and numbers entered directly as the passed functions argument but not (it seems :) ) for when the argument is supplied in a symbol. eval might well cope with that and if not...I'll work on it. Note,

Re: executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 06:26:14PM +, dean wrote: > I seem to be able to do this by > (de some_fn (Canned_fn_and_arg.. > > and then executing the Canned_fn_and_arg inside some_fn by doing > ((car Canned_fn) (car (cdr Canned_fn))) > > Is this the right way or is there a slicker

executing a function + argument passed in as an argument to another function

I seem to be able to do this by (de some_fn (Canned_fn_and_arg.. and then executing the Canned_fn_and_arg inside some_fn by doing ((car Canned_fn) (car (cdr Canned_fn))) Is this the right way or is there a slicker one?