From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defining functions within functions?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 23:36:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r3crgmud.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-231605.12151824052016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> "reassign the variable"?
>
> (defun foo-local (a)
> (flet ((bar ()
> (incf a)))
> (bar))
> a)
>
> vs.
>
> (defun foo-global (a)
> (setq a (bar a))
> a)
> (defun bar (a)
> (+1 a))
OK, so it is a situation with global variables?
Personally I never (?) use `setq' in defuns so
again this situation is hard to visualize in an
applied setting, but yes, I see
the reassignment.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 5:13 Defining functions within functions? Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-23 5:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-05-24 21:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-23 20:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-24 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-24 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-24 22:10 ` Carlos Konstanski
2016-05-25 6:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.224.1464127813.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-24 22:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-25 6:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 8:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-25 8:43 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-05-25 19:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 9:07 ` tomas
2016-05-25 15:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-25 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-25 15:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.255.1464190813.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-26 7:52 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-24 22:17 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-24 21:46 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-05-24 7:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-24 14:33 ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 15:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-24 16:15 ` Barry Margolin
2016-05-24 21:36 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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2016-05-23 7:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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