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Is is correct to say that function does the same thing that symbol-function does only in the current environment instead of the global environment?

CL-USER> ((setf head) *x* 100) Will it call the function called (setf head) ? Or will it try to evaluate the expression (setf head) and use its return value as the function to call, as you're suggesting? I'd say either interpretation would make sense. And in fact, the spec doesn't favour one interp...

I started out reading Practical Common Lisp, but I didn't really like his style of explaining things. Then I tried ANSI Common Lisp and I think it's great. It may be a little hard to follow for complete programming beginners but for people who have already programmed in other languages it's just rig...

Hello! Another Lisp beginner here. I'm currently reading ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham (PG). I've come to the chapter on functions and the sub chapter on closures. There are some things that confuse me. *Thought about it for a while.* Hm, now that I have thought about it I think that I have pretty...