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5.3.9 function-lambda-expression | Function
  Syntax: function-lambda-expression function lambda-expression, closure-p, name Arguments and Values: function - a function. lambda-expression - a lambda expression or nil. closure-p - a generalized boolean. name - an object. Description: Returns information about function as follows: The primary value, lambda-expression, is function's defining lambda expression, or nil if the information is not available. The lambda expression may have been pre-processed in some ways, but it should remain a suitable argument to compile or function. Any implementation may legitimately return nil as the lambda-expression of any function. The secondary value, closure-p, is nil if function's definition was enclosed in the null lexical environment or something non-nil if function's definition might have been enclosed in some non-null lexical environment. Any implementation may legitimately return true as the closure-p of any function. The tertiary value, name, is the "name" of function. The name is intended for debugging only and is not necessarily one that would be valid for use as a name in defun or function, for example. By convention, nil is used to mean that function has no name. Any implementation may legitimately return nil as the name of any function. Examples: The following examples illustrate some possible return values, but are not intended to be exhaustive:
       (function-lambda-expression #'(lambda (x) x))
        NIL, false, NIL
      OR NIL, true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) X), true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) X), false, NIL

       (function-lambda-expression
          (funcall #'(lambda () #'(lambda (x) x))))
        NIL, false, NIL
      OR NIL, true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) X), true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) X), false, NIL

       (function-lambda-expression
          (funcall #'(lambda (x) #'(lambda () x)) nil))
        NIL, true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA () X), true, NIL
      NOT NIL, false, NIL
      NOT(LAMBDA () X), false, NIL

       (flet ((foo (x) x))
         (setf (symbol-function 'bar) #'foo)
         (function-lambda-expression #'bar))
        NIL, false, NIL
      OR NIL, true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) (BLOCK FOO X)), true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) (BLOCK FOO X)), false, FOO
      OR(SI::BLOCK-LAMBDA FOO (X) X), false, FOO

       (defun foo ()
         (flet ((bar (x) x))
           #'bar))
       (function-lambda-expression (foo))
        NIL, false, NIL
      OR NIL, true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) (BLOCK BAR X)), true, NIL
      OR(LAMBDA (X) (BLOCK BAR X)), true, (:INTERNAL FOO 0 BAR)
      OR(LAMBDA (X) (BLOCK BAR X)), false, "BAR in FOO"
Notes: Although implementations are free to return "nil, true, nil" in all cases, they are encouraged to return a lambda expression as the primary value in the case where the argument was created by a call to compile or eval (as opposed to being created by loading a compiled file). Allegro CL Implementation Details: See cl:function-lambda-expression in implementation.htm for information on the implementation of function-lambda-expression. Note the links are to the documentation for the current Allegro CL version. Replace /current/ in the URL with the Allegro CL version number to see similar documentation is earlier releases.

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