Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] Lambda case distinction

[Per Bothner]

On 12/30/2012 05:04 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
> The handling of the lambda symbol in commonlisp/lang/function.java is
> suspicious. The following is just to avoid problems with the CL reader
> as it "upcases" symbol names, so the check fails. Might be better to
> look lambda up in the function namespace instead

Presumably you mean "look lambda up in the common-lisp package".
We need to compare symbols, not bindings.

> and then do a symbol
> comparison, but I assumed there would be a good reason for the string
> comparison in the first place.

Not that I can think - it might have been an expediency.
Comparing against common-lisp:lambda seems the right thing.
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