From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: critique: my-first-function
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:47:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614214734.128b4c55eaf6b66a7b3ef537@speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1403.1465780144.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 03:08:47 +0200
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
My thanks to both you and Stefan.
> `let' should be `let*' since "frame-parameters"
> are used inside the same `let'.
It's a good thing you mentioned that! The next morning, I had to
restart emacs (because ssh mumble something timeout) and my function
failed. It had worked the day before because
> (let ( (frame-parameters
frame-parameters happened to have been defined globally during
testing. Adding the "*" fixed it instantly.
Is the "*" a convention of some kind that I should be aware of?
> Instead of "frame1" "frame2", name them after
> some property.
Well, one day the whole thing will be a recursive call over a list of
coordinates. The frames don't deserve names, but I couldn't see my way
to creating the list.
Thanks again.
--jkl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-15 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-12 22:39 critique: my-first-function James K. Lowden
2016-06-13 1:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-13 1:08 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1403.1465780144.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-15 1:47 ` James K. Lowden [this message]
2016-06-15 4:43 ` Drew Adams
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