Subject: bug#52063: 28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:31:22 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (lambda () 1)
>> => (closure (t) nil 1)
>
> Where do you see something like the above in my recipe?  The recipe
> was:

If you put

(lambda () 1)

into *scratch* and then `C-u C-x C-e' it'll spit put

(closure (t) nil 1)

Because that's what that form evaluates to in lexically bound buffers.
`lambda' is no longer self-evaluating, and hasn't been for a few years.

(But I guess it's pretty recent that *scratch* defaults to lexical.)

And it's the same with

(lambda ()
  (setq flyspell-generic-check-word-p
	'mail-mode-flyspell-verify))

of course.

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