[Coco] Basic Lisp

[J Arcane]

The lambda is the anonymous function; basically the building block of the
math on which Lisp is based, but also seriously handy because it allows you
to define functions on the fly and even store them in variables (all
functions can be stored and passed as values in Lisp). Perhaps one of the
more ludicrous examples of this I've ever coded personally was a virtual
machine where the functions to simulate the opcodes were actually stored in
the same hash-table that referenced them!



On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Richard E Crislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:24:37 +0200
> J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nice! It'll be interesting to try if you do get it working. XLISP is
> > pretty good, as these things go (though no lambda or macros is kinda
> > limiting, as is the lack of support for bigger numbers than 16-bit).
> >
> <snip>
>
> PMFBI, but what's a LAMDA? In know what a MACRO is, just not sure about
> the LAMDA. TIA
>
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