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  13 * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1
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  15 ** New `function vector' type, including function currying
  16 The `function vector', or `funvec' type extends the old
  17 byte-compiled-function vector type to have other uses as well, and
  18 includes existing byte-compiled functions as a special case.  The kind
  19 of funvec is determined by the first element: a list is a byte-compiled
  20 function, and a non-nil atom is one of the new extended uses, currently
  21 `curry' for curried functions.  See the node `Funvec Type' in the Emacs
  22 Lisp Reference Manual for more information.
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  24 *** New function curry allows constructing `curried functions'
  25 (see the node `Function Currying' in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual).
  26
  27 *** New functions funvec and funvecp allow primitive access to funvecs
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