Re: Question re CL need of funcall ?

In article <1153161692.659831.246440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"fireblade" <BLASESKI@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

couldn't compiler insert funcall when it sees fn after opening bracket
so this would be the same as above :

Consider:

(defun baz (list x)
(list list x))

If it automatically inserted funcall, this would call the wrong function.

MACLisp had an option to do the automatic funcall if the name at the
beginning of an expression doesn't have a function binding, but AFAIK no
one ever turned on the option.

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