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From: pietru@caramail.com
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:49:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-086f56e9-f6c0-4590-affe-e25e474fb7b4-1607366986150@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR06MB657711EBA294771434E50DA596CE0@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>



> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2020 at 7:33 PM
> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> To: pietru@caramail.com
> Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
>
> 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.

Quite right.  Still, this is all new for me from the code side of things.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 18:49 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
2020-12-07 18:49               ` pietru [this message]
2020-12-07 20:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-07 20:25               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:39                 ` Christopher Dimech

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