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From: pietru@caramail.com
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 21:21:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-c94d4719-5865-4044-aed9-e524510d46b6-1607372475616@3c-app-mailcom-bs08> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2i9e6j3.fsf@web.de>


> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2020 at 8:54 PM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Optional Arguments
>
> pietru@caramail.com writes:
>
> > Am getting an error with the following.
> >
> > (defun word-markers ()
> >    (let ((ma mb)) <--
>
> You bind `ma' to the value of `mb'.  That's not what you want.

I got on the manual, only when variables stand alone and not surrounded by parentheses,
are being bound to nil.

> Michael.
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 20:21 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 [this message]
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
2020-12-07 20:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-07 20:25               ` pietru
2020-12-07 20:39                 ` Christopher Dimech

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