Questions tagged [sharp-quote]
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Why sharp quote lambda expressions?
It is a technique used frequently in On Lisp, which is on Common Lisp:
> (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (+ x 10))
'(1 2 3))
(11 12 13)
Why is sharp-quote needed or even possible? lambda expressions return function objects, and sharp quoting returns…
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How is sharp quote (#') different from symbol-function?
To me these operators seem to do the same thing. Both take a symbol and return the function associated with it. Is there any difference?
elisp evaluation returns the following:
(defun foo (x) (+ 1 x))
foo
(foo 3)
4
#'foo
Which I don't…
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