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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Problem with (apply #'or <list>)? (cl 3.0.1)
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Date: 15 Feb 91 18:37:50 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.065508.28609@cs.columbia.edu> d-yang@division.columbia.edu (David Yang) writes:
;Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see why (apply #'or '(t nil t nil))
;shouldn't work.  What am I missing?


CLtL II, pg 145 (from I): "it is illegal for the symbol to be the name
of a macro or special form."

You can use SOME to do the same thing like this:

(apply #'some #'identity (list '(t nil t nil)))

But that's not very idiomatic, since (some #'identity '(t nil t nil))
is equivalent. In short, you probably don't need APPLY here at all.