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Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:37 pm**

Hi Lutz,

I have defined the following func:

(define (type val)
   (if
      (float? val) 'float
      (integer? val) 'integer
      (lambda? val) 'lambda
      (list? val) 'list
      (macro? val) 'macro
      (string? val) 'string
      (symbol? val) 'symbol
      (atom? val) 'atom))

in a file called tools.lsp, now when I load this file, I get an error:

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> (load "tools.lsp")

invalid lambda expression : [text]lambda
      (list? val) 'list
      (macro? val) 'macro
      (string? val) 'string
      (symbol? val) 'symbol
      (atom? val) 'atom))

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:27 pm**

Hi Ingo,

If you change the results from symbols into strings, you should get what you wanted. The symbols are conflicting with the names of the functions, which are symbols!

m i c h a e l

Posted: **Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:04 pm**

Using symbols is fine. It's the "lambda" (and "fn", "lambda-macro", "fn-macro") the only strings which are wired into the scanner and only accepted after an opening parenthesis to identify a lambda type expression or list. Use another word as a workaround. These words should not be used as symbols and are part of the newLISP syntax.

For example

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(lambda)

is not a list with one symbol lambda but an empty lambda list:

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(empty? (lambda)) => true
(length (lambda)) => 0
(first (lambda)) => nil
(lambda? (lambda)) => true

Lutz

See also:
http://newlisp.org/newlisp_manual.html# ... xpressions

Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:02 am**

*embarrassed* I guess this Lutz guy knows something about this subject, so I will defer to him ;-)

m i c h a e l

Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:02 am**

Ahh, thank you.

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[bug] lambda? scanning error ...

[bug] lambda? scanning error ...