From: joseph alicandro
Subject: R. Corman's Lisp
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <joseph-2706992148100001@acc9-ppp94.mel.enternet.com.au>

Hi,
   If I type '(a b c) in Roger Corman's Lisp I get the following error
message: Error no function named a.
In Common Lisp a quoted list must evaluate to the list itself. So what's
happening here?

From: Chris Double
Subject: Re: R. Corman's Lisp
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <wkk8spg8cd.fsf@ihug.co.nz>

······@smartchat.net.au (joseph alicandro) writes:

>    If I type '(a b c) in Roger Corman's Lisp I get the following
> error message: Error no function named a.

It's a problem with the Corman Lisp IDE, not the Corman Lisp
engine. You'll notice that if you have the cursor to the right of the
last parenthesis, the left parenthesis is highlighted. Evaluating this
expressions causes only the (a b c) to be evaluated, hence the error.

To correctly evaluate it using the IDE you can select the entire
expression.

Chris.