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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with Emacs 28
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:07:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z6uz3d4.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tuuee2yr.fsf@gmail.com

> These are the terms I recall as well. but it seems this terminology is
> muddy at best, seeing as how you described each one in terms of 'a
> function that...'. But I'm stumped with what else to call them,
> `callable' maybe? :-)

The show must go on...

anonymous function - `lambda' - to be honest, to me it has just been
a cute little function inside a set/list/aggregate function,
where no name is needed, but I take it lambda does other
things elsewhere?

recursive function - see this thread:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2020-10/msg00422.html

mutually recursive functions - difficult to debug, e.g. GNU HURD

overloaded function - two functions with the same name. resolution is
done by time, context, or perhaps by the number/types of arguments?

higher-order function - a function that accepts a function as an
arguments. sounds like the list functions above, maybe higher-order
functions can do this with any function? but isn't this always
possible, anyway? with names, anyway. with code maybe macros are used?
(not keyboard macros). personally I'm a basic technician and does not
bother with that advanced stuff

inherited function - classroom whiteboard drawing that no one uses
anyway

a function of his current mood - Emanuel Berg's post

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-28 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-23 16:50 problems with Emacs 28 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 17:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 18:02   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24  1:55   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 12:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 12:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24  9:46   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 17:00     ` Drew Adams
2020-10-24 19:26       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 22:11         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 22:08       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-25 12:13       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-25 14:15         ` Drew Adams
2020-10-27  0:29           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-27 10:22             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-28 16:21             ` Jens C. Jensen
2020-10-28 17:07               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-10-28 17:18               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-31 18:26                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 13:51                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:22   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24  0:13   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 19:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24  0:14   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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