What You've Learned

This short chapter discussed how to create anonymous functions. Here are the main points:

  • By using lambda, you can create a function without needing to give it a name.

  • Many functions in Lisp accept functions as parameters. If you use these functions, you are using a technique called higher-order functional programming.

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