Because procedures are first-class, the evaluation of a lambda expression yields a closure consisting of the procedure's code and the environment in which the expression was evaluated.
The code pointer in the closure does not need to be referenced if the operator always evaluates to procedures built from the same lambda expression. Instead, the compiler can emit a direct jump to the applied procedure's code, bypassing the argument-count check on the callee's side.
First, the lambda expression (lambda (a) a) has no free variables, and its value can therefore be constructed at compile time.
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They ate predicative remarks like 'T[lambda]Hd' and 'F[lambda]Hd', with 'T' and 'F' 'is true', and 'is false', where the
lambda expressions obey the propositional truth schema: T[lambda]p [equivalent to] p.
