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28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda

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Message #140 received at 52063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>, 52063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52063: 28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:26:21 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> I sense a bit of confusion: we're talking about the runtime representation
>> of function values: those never occur in source code.
>
> Yes, but we're able to funcall those runtime representations.  So that
> doesn't really make much of a difference here, I think?

(That is -- the point of all this is to make the printed representation
of the runtime representation more recognisable (and usable) as source
code, even if it'll never appear in nature.)

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