Byte-compiling lambda-applications

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From: macrakis
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 23:36

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GNU Emacs 18.55.121 on NeXT 2.0

(defun foo (a) ((lambda (x) x) a))

works fine interpretively, but byte-compiling it gives an error--it
expects a symbol in function position.

This is a real pity, not only because it is perfectly good Lisp that
you might write by hand, but also because it is very handy when you're
doing macroexpansions and other program transformations.

	-s

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