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From: compass!worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Fun bug in byte-compile
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Date: 17 Jul 89 14:12:16 GMT
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In Gnu Emacs 18.53, if I try to byte-compile the defun:

    (defun a ()
      ((lambda (x)
	 7)
       y))

I get an error that "(lambda (x) 7) is not a symbol", or some such.
Apparently the byte-compile code doesn't realize that the function
position of an application may be a lambda-expression!

You can work around this by writing instead:

    (defun a ()
      (funcall
       (lambda (x)
	 7)
       y))

Dale
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Dale Worley, Compass, Inc.                      worley@compass.com
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