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From: bernat@utep-vaxa.UUCP (Dr. Bernat )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Compiling lexical closures
Message-ID: <304@utep-vaxa.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 16:28:55 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas at El Paso, EE & CS
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Keywords: compile closures

I am trying to compile a lexical closure in Franz Common LISP and
keeping getting the "illegal function form" message.  It seems to
me that I should be able to compile closures.

For example,
(defun test (a) (function (lambda (x) (cons x a))))
(test 5) => returns a lexical closure
(funcall (test 5) 6) => (6.5) as expected
but
(compile nil (test 5)) gives the error message

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Andrew Bernat
CS Dept.
U.Texas @ El Paso
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