From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ~`symbol-function' to get code as list even when byte-compiled?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 19:18:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp5o8tjw.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wpzw1t8e.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
> writes:
>
>> Variables have been invented for a purpose.
>
> ...which is?
To store state.
Don't store state in the code, use the code to act on state stored in
variables!
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-25 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-25 2:52 ~`symbol-function' to get code as list even when byte-compiled? Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 2:58 ` Barry Margolin
2015-05-25 17:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 17:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-05-25 3:10 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-05-25 17:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 17:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3638.1432574334.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-25 17:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-25 17:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.3640.1432576116.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-26 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-26 0:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-26 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-26 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-27 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-27 1:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-27 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-27 2:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-27 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-27 23:49 ` Emanuel Berg
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