From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defining functions within functions?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:43:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864m9nihrn.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-7D208C.10333724052016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> If you have a local function, it can access
> variables in the calling function directly.
> If you move it out to a top-level function,
> you have to pass those variables
> as arguments.
Right, I didn't think of that but actually it
is even more confusing.
It is more clear to call the function at top
level, and pass it all it needs to do its job.
> And if the function being called needs to
> reassign the variable, you need to do that in
> the caller if you use a top-level function.
"reassign the variable"?
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 5:13 Defining functions within functions? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-23 5:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-05-24 21:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-23 20:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-24 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-24 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-24 22:10 ` Carlos Konstanski
2016-05-25 6:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.224.1464127813.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-24 22:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-25 6:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 8:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-25 8:43 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-05-25 19:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 9:07 ` tomas
2016-05-25 15:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-25 15:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.255.1464190813.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-26 7:52 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.223.1464127012.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-24 22:17 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-24 21:46 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-24 7:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-24 14:33 ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 15:43 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-05-24 16:15 ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-23 7:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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