If the substitute a lambda form for a function idiom stops working as I want it to, that's OK. I'll just write my own substitute :)
As I recall, the support staff at Macsyma taught me the idiom.
--Barton
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>I think that Bill Gosper (who wrote nusum) uses this idiom frequently. The code library from Macsyma probably has a bunch of stuff that would
> cease to work.