A possible bug in funcall

[wineberg@scs.carleton.ca (Mark Wineberg)]

I was experimenting with funcalls on mcl version 2.0 and found a behavior
that I did not understand.  The lambda expresions were all copied
so the error is not produced by a typo.  I far as I know, the
car of the list is a valid function, properly written with the
#', yet when the car is taken, a funcall on it does not work.
Is this a bug in the system or am I misusing something.

An example taken from the listener's transcript follows:

? (funcall #'(lambda () (+ 1 2 3 4 5)))
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? (funcall (eval '#'(lambda () (+ 1 2 3 4 5))))
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? (car '(#'(lambda () (+ 1 2 3 4 5)) 25))
#'(LAMBDA NIL (+ 1 2 3 4 5))
? (funcall (car '(#'(lambda () (+ 1 2 3 4 5)) 25)))
> Error: #'(LAMBDA NIL (+ 1 2 3 4 5)) can't be FUNCALLed or APPLYed.
> While executing: CCL::TOPLEVEL-EVAL
> Type Command-. to abort.
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Thanking anyone who replies in advance,

     Mark Wineberg (wineberg@scs.carleton.ca)