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: Understanding the "let" construct and the setting of variables
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:14:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eejnyr37.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-2c32a017-c34b-4378-88c7-23916337ac3f-1608164711813@3c-app-mailcom-bs11
steve-humphreys wrote:
> Let's introspect two questions.
>
> 1. In what simple circumstances would one use a "setq" in
> the body of a let?
When one wants to change a global variable that already exists
outside of the function.
Try to avoid this situation altogether but if it is there, it
is there I guess, and sure, you can set it with `setq' to
whatever you want :)
> 2. What simple option does one have that is more
> advantageous than using a "setq"?
Use `let' and/or `let*' for everything else...
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2020-12-17 0:10 Understanding the "let" construct and the setting of variables steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 0:21 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 2:08 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 3:12 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 8:01 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 8:31 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 8:50 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 8:10 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 8:43 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 8:56 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-18 20:48 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 20:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 21:07 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 22:31 ` tomas
2020-12-18 20:39 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-17 2:49 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 7:58 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 16:55 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-17 20:11 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-17 22:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-18 9:01 ` tomas
2020-12-18 9:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-18 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-19 2:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-19 2:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-19 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-18 20:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-17 0:25 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 0:35 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-17 1:05 ` Joost Kremers
2020-12-17 1:20 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-18 20:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-17 4:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-17 5:12 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-19 6:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-17 7:31 ` steve-humphreys
2020-12-19 5:55 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-19 6:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-20 5:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 17:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-12-18 17:48 ` tomas
2020-12-18 15:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-18 18:12 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 18:20 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-18 18:45 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-18 20:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-18 21:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-19 6:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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