I have read that with a statically typed language like Scala or Haskell there is no way to create or provide a Lisp apply function:
(apply #'+ (list 1 2 3)) => 6
or maybe
(apply #'list '(list :foo 1 2 "bar")) => (:FOO 1 2 "bar")
(apply #'nth (list 1 '(1 2 3))) => 2
Is this a truth?