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		amttc on March 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C, The Beautiful Language Not that this has too much to do with what you two were talking about, but (car '(lambda (x) x)) will return lambda in Scheme.

eru on March 16, 2011 [–]

You are right.

Actually I was almost going to add (car '(lambda (x) x)) to my post in the first place; in line with `The syntax for functions is lists.'

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