‘(vterm local)’ is a malformed function

[hw]

Hi,

I've made some functions to set up a bunch of connections with vterm:


(require 'vterm)

(defun my-vterm-connect (pretty-name fqdn)
  "Wrapper for logging into a host the name of which is given in the
argument fqdn via ssh."
  (vterm pretty-name)
  (vterm-send-string (concat "cd /tmp ; ssh " fqdn "\ntmux attach"))
  (vterm-send-return))

(defun my-connections (fqdns)
  "Set up a bunch of vterms, some with ssh connections."
  (if (not (get-buffer "local")) ((vterm "local")
                                  (vterm-send-string "cd")
                                  (vterm-send-return))
    (message "local terminal seems already open"))
  (dolist (this fqdns)
    (if (not (get-buffer this))
        (my-vterm-connect this this)
      (message "%s seems already connected to" this))))


That way, I can call (my-connections '("host1.example.com"
"host2.example.com")) for how many hosts I may want to connect to.

It works fine, though I'm getting a warning:


⛔ Warning (comp): connections.el:13:36: Warning: ‘(vterm local)’ is a malformed 
function


What's malformed about it?  It doesn't consider (vterm pretty-name) as
malformed ... "local" somehow gets unstringyfied?