Re: Distinguishing `consp` and `functionp`

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Beside taste and philosophical differences, the main motivation is to
  > make `consp` and `functionp` mutually exclusive so as to eliminate the
  > risk that a list be considered mistakenly as a function or vice versa.

The fact that there are functions which are lists is not a minor
wrinkle of Lisp.  It is part of the foundational ideas of Lisp.
It is ok that there are functions which are atoms,
but the goal that ALL functions be atoms is perverse in Lisp terms.

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