> This is why explicitly said Lambdas A lambda is a function. There is nothing special about them. There is nothing which makes them less or more functional th

> This is why explicitly said Lambdas A lambda is a function. There is nothing special about them. There is nothing which makes them less or more functional than other functions. ((lambda (x) (* x 10)) 30) FYI: above is valid Scheme code. BiwaScheme Interpreter version 0.6.4 Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Yutaka HARA and the BiwaScheme team ((lambda (x) (* x 10)) 30) => 300 Above is lambda expression applied to an argument. There is nothing 'delaying' about it. > You seem to be confusing what the CL Hyperspec calls syntax, No, I'm looking at the Racket documentation. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/syntax-model.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/syntax-model.html The reader in Racket reads expressions into syntax objects. In a second pass it then creates a complete parse. In an Interpreter based Lisp one reads the s-expression into an internal representation of lists, symbols, numbers. The interpreter then has the syntax encoded into its code and walks these lists keeping track of functions, variables, built-in operators, bindings, ... etc. That's pretty much what a Lisp interpreter did since the dawn of time. Two decades before CL even existed. Clojure even doesn't use an interpreter.