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Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:37:55 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>   That is exactly correct, yet I find nothing on this topic using 
>   “first-class functions” as a keyword/phrase.

I'm not sure exactly what kind of information you're looking for about
that, but maybe other related keywords might be "indirect function call"
(i.e. `funcall`) and "higher-order function" (which is the term used to
denote the functions that manipulate other functions, such as `mapcar`).


        Stefan




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