Re: Incompatibility

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh(a)cs.rochester.edu&gt; writes: Idea: the code is broken. The (function NAME) special form is supposed to return the lexically apparent function definition of NAME, where NAME may be a symbol or a lambda expression. In Emacs, this boils down to just returning NAME unevaluated. What you're trying to do is, when you strip read-time syntactic sugar, the following: (function (backquote (lambda (arg2) (\, arg1)))) Obviously, the argument to FUNCTION is neither a symbol nor a lambda expression. The interpreter groks it because `function' is exactly the same as `quote'. The compiler needs to do more analysis, which is why it gets to complain more. What you want to do is: (defun test-func (arg1) `(lambda (arg2) ;; code here ,arg1)) The problem here is that the `;; code here' part will not be compiled. If you don't have compunctions about using CL-isms, you can do this: (defun test-func (arg1) (lexical-let ((arg1 arg1)) (lambda (arg2) ;; code here, does get compiled. arg1))) When elisp becomes lexically scoped, the `lexical-let' part will not be necessary.