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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: pietru@caramail.com
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:33:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR06MB657711EBA294771434E50DA596CE0@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e5bafd06-5163-490c-bc71-d1bf87e9d54c-1607363494209@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (pietru@caramail.com's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2020 18:51:34 +0100")

pietru@caramail.com writes:

>> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2020 at 4:51 PM
>> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
>> To: pietru@caramail.com
>> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 04:06:13PM +0100, pietru@caramail.com wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > How can one get computed values from a function then?
>>
>> Either you return it (in your case, e.g. by returning a pair)
>>
>>   (cons ma mb)
>
> Because by default, a function returns the value of the last expression
> evaluated as the return value.  Correct?
Yes.

You probably wish to prefer to return values instead of using globals as
Thomas already pointed out.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07  3:17 Optional Arguments pietru
2020-12-07  8:16 ` Alexis Roda
2020-12-07 12:37   ` pietru
2020-12-07 13:06     ` tomas
2020-12-07 13:35       ` Anders Dalskov
2020-12-07 14:24       ` pietru
2020-12-07 15:38         ` tomas
2020-12-07 18:13           ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:01             ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-07 19:42               ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:54                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-07 20:21                   ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:52                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-07 21:21                     ` pietru
2020-12-07 19:51             ` Alexis Roda
2020-12-07 15:06       ` pietru
2020-12-07 15:51         ` tomas
2020-12-07 17:51           ` pietru
2020-12-07 18:33             ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-12-07 18:49               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-07 20:25               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:39                 ` Christopher Dimech

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