Simplified Common Lisp reference

Symbol class: Functions, Evaluation, Flow Control, Definitions and Syntax

Syntax:

Symbol type: function

applyfnargs^{(zero or more)} => value

Argument description:

fn	a function designator
args	call arguments

APPLY function call supplied function with specified arguments. Argument list is constructed as (append (butlast args) (first (last args))). Note that there is limitation of maximal number of arguments, see CALL-ARGUMENTS-LIMIT constant. See also FUNCALL, LAMBDA.

(apply #'+ 1 2 3 '(4 5 6)) => 21
(apply #'sin '(1.0)) => 0.84147096
(apply #'sin 1.0 nil) => 0.84147096

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