From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems with Emacs 28 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: <875z6uz3d4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87lffwhop1.fsf@zoho.eu> <87r1poddpj.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pn58gdnj.fsf@web.de> <3cec75b0-410b-40c7-97c3-d04667c4c04d@default> <877drea4gb.fsf@web.de> <10bfb59d-23a2-4fb8-8bc6-105ffd486edd@default> <87sga0o6k0.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tuuee2yr.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:b3fSD80xt+GYBbqhQ6GG4zdIxKI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 18:11:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXoz5-0005kx-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:11:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43726 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXoz4-0002L2-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXoup-0004zF-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36168 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXoun-0004bo-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXouj-0000mZ-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:07:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/28 13:07:10 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124785 Archived-At: > 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 -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal