Re: Need help in understanding an example of recursion

[Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap@gmail.com>]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is there some subtle[0] point about recursion that I am missing?
>> Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.
>
> This is not a question of recursion.  It's a question of something you
> should have learned the first day of your first programming course,
> that you  should not use global variables and you should initialize
> your variables!
>
>
> Your variable named value is not a local variable of
> nea-next-partition.    Moreover, value is a variable that's bound to
> new values automatically, read it's documentation. C-h v value RET
>


This is embarasing.  I actually  red the documentation,  and I
thought that in the dolist construction the third argument is
automatically local.  Not sure where I got the impression since 
the example in the manual does initialize the variable!

Thanks for the answer and the tips,
Nikos