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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
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk




  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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