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Will ' affect the evaluation of special forms? Example: (function 'function-name). If this doesn't work, why?
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A special form is a primitive function specially marked so that its arguments are not all evaluated. Most special forms define control structures or perform variable bindings—things which functions cannot do. Each special form has its own rules for which arguments are evaluated and which are used without evaluation.
A special form is an expression that follows special evaluation rules. This chapter describes the basic Scheme special forms.
The standard unit of interaction with a Common Lisp implementation is the form, which is simply a data object meant to be evaluated as a program to produce one or more values (which are also data objects). One may request evaluation of any data object, but only certain ones are meaningful.
Lambda is the name of a special form that generates procedures.
'name is read to (quote name).
FUNCTION expects a name for a function, a list (setf some-name) or a lambda expression.
(quote name) is neither. So it is an error to use it.
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