Subject: Re: Looking for examples of lisp-2's expressiveness
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 05:42:32 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <I62cnb-x-qaFTamiXTWc-g@speakeasy.net>
Siegfried Gonzi  <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at> wrote:
+---------------
| It is an interesting discussion. I often have thougt that an explicit 
| funcall mechanism as  in CommonLisp could help to document one's
| Scheme code.
+---------------

Well, if that's what you really want, it's easy enough to do in Scheme:

	> (define (funcall f . rest)
	    (apply f rest))
	> (funcall + 3 4 5)
	12
	> 

;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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