Title    : Lambda Bound
Original : Homeward Bound
Group    : Simon & Garfunkel
Author   : Guy L. Steele Jr.
Intro    :
Song     :


		   Lambda Bound

	    [to be sung to the tune of
		  Homeward Bound]


I'm just a little value cell,
And I play my special role so well --
	 Hmmm --
Serving as a global switch
To predicate some system glitch;
But some strange value -- who knows which? --
Could cause me functions to bewitch!
	 Lambda bound!
I wish I was
	 Lambda bound!
Bound, so no SETQ's get me;
Bound, so quits will reset me;
Bound, where I can forget my
	 Top-level value.

It's hard to catch those system screws:
'Most any value causes me to lose --
	 Hmmm --
Each atom looks the same to me,
Whose interned name I cannot see,
And every NIL and every T
Reminds me that I long to be
	 Lambda bound!
I wish I was
	 Lambda bound!
Bound, so no SETQ's get me;
Bound, so quits will reset me;
Bound, where I can forget my
	 Top-level value.

Next time I'll have a MAR break set
And try to catch each clobber threat --
	 Hmmm, mmmm --
The next covert attempt to mung
Will cause the MAR break to be sprung,
But then the poor LISP will be hung
Because I'm not as I have sung:
	 Lambda bound!
I wish I was
	 Lambda bound!
Bound, so no SETQ's get me;
Bound, so quits will reset me;
Bound, where I can forget my
	 Top-level value.


	       -- The Great Quux
		    (with apologies to
		       Paul Simon)

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