From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defining functions within functions? Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:47:11 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86fut9kygw.fsf@student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464883568 18592 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 16:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:06:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 18:05:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b8V88-0004pc-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8V87-0000Z6-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:05:55 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NldreSyCO33oicpixJ3IdNDw1EU= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217840 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110237 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > In Scheme, one would probably use define > inside another define. Is it a good idea to > use a (cl-)defun within a defun in Elisp to > obtain a closure in this situation? If not, > what is a better way? Create a new file and put all defuns on the same level in that file. Otherwise `cl-labels' but I'm hesitant if this really makes the code more readable... (Not compared to isolated defuns, for sure.) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 39 Blogomatic articles -