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From: mcconnel@zodiac.ads.com (Chris McConnell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Compiling lexical closures
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Date: 4 May 88 13:56:16 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 941-3912
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Keywords: compile closures

To get a compiled closure, you want to compile the function that
generates the closure, not the closure itself.  So, in your example:

(compile 'test)
#<test number>
(test 5)
#<(:internal test 0) number>