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From: cox@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Charles A. Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Compiling lexical closures
Message-ID: <23878@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 4 May 88 19:42:49 GMT
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Keywords: compile closures

In article <304@utep-vaxa.UUCP> bernat@utep-vaxa.UUCP (Dr. Bernat ) writes:
>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.

Page 438 of CLtL:

   compile name &optional definition         [function]

   If definition is supplied, it should be a
   lambda-expression, the interpreted function to be
   compiled.  If not supplied, then name should be a symbol
   with a definition that is a lambda-expression.
   [...]

If you want compiled closures, the correct thing to do is to compile
the function which creates the closures, as this will cause all
closures created to be compiled.