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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defining functions within functions?
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:47:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fut9kygw.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.94.1463980455.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> In Scheme, one would probably use define
> inside another define. Is it a good idea to
> use a (cl-)defun within a defun in Elisp to
> obtain a closure in this situation? If not,
> what is a better way?

Create a new file and put all defuns on the
same level in that file.

Otherwise `cl-labels' but I'm hesitant if this
really makes the code more readable... (Not
compared to isolated defuns, for sure.)

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       reply	other threads:[~2016-05-23  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.94.1463980455.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-23  7:47 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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
     [not found]   ` <mailman.222.1464125502.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-24 21:46     ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.141.1464034180.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-24  7:13   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-24 14:33     ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 15:43       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-24 16:15         ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 21:36           ` Emanuel Berg

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