if does not evaluate

[James Moughan]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote in message news:<tyfaczabmfw.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch>...
> moughanj at tcd.ie (James Moughan) writes:
> 
> > Now, how to do this in Lisp.  There are several functions for applying
> > a function to the elements of a list to select them, though AFAIK none
> > specifically for our purpose.  I may very well be wrong there
> > o'course.  One way is:
> > 
> > (define has-element (cond list) 
> >     (equal () (member-if #'cond list))))
> 
> (some #'cond list)
> 

Fair-nuff; I K'ed incorrectly.

> > We have to have a rather arbitrary #' funcall and syntax to stop a
> > function evaluating long enough to shift it to where it's useful.
> 
> What on earth are you talking about ?

Quoting #' a function.