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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: apply, mapcar, lack of setenv
Keywords: Emacs-lisp, hacking, environment
Message-ID: <40944@bbn.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 89 18:25:35 GMT
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In-reply-to: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)

In article <40844@bbn.COM>, I write:
>Unfortunately, funcall also works only with functions, not subr's:
>
>  (reduce 'or nil '(nil t nil)) => error "Invalid function #<subr or>"

Kyle Jones pointed out in mail that this statement should read:

  Unfortunately, funcall doesn't work either with forms that don't
  eval their arguments, e.g. and, or, cond.
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