> so what makes a variable different from a function? Nothing really. The great thing about Lisp is that almost everything defined under a define statement is t

> so what makes a variable different from a function? Nothing really. The great thing about Lisp is that almost everything defined under a define statement is treated the same. this is one of the bigger differences between languages in the common lisp family and those in the scheme family. schemes have a single namespace that's shared across functions and data while common lisps have a separate function namespace from other values