Re: clisp: %funcall == funcall?!!

[Bruno H. <ha...@il...>]

Sam asks:
> what is %FUNCALL for?  it is defined adentically to FUNCALL in control.d
> is it for trace.lisp only?

No, its main purpose is that it can freely be used by the compiler.
When you have user code like

   (flet ((funcall (f &rest args) (my-weird-things)))
     (mapc (lambda (x) x) list))

you want the MAPC inline expansion to refer to the real FUNCALL
function, not the user's one. (The compiler will then inline this
%FUNCALL, but that doesn't really matter here.)

Bruno