From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Returning value from function Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:42:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87cza5b94k.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <7P5WCxP2NNKoSzZPOriH6Ig6qIlzpNlkZyys-ODkt12l9KW2KmGZrGkB1ZYwPoJFNA48KLphAQMxTfNSxK67WKk13kSf4mecOARjYL4qchY=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22504"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LW+nooqoEX93Uq1BFapRsSh4HhI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 17:49:39 2022 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 1oqGvr-0005ae-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:49:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqGvg-00006W-0y; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqGpS-0005gE-J6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqGpR-0002zq-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oqGpP-0006g3-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:42:59 +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-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-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:49:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140578 Archived-At: > I would like tow functions, one to return a string ("Green" > "Amber") or a symbol ('green 'amber). Functions don't really return stuff explicitly like in C, rather everything is evaluated, sometimes to something else, and there can be side-effects as well while doing so ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal