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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another question about lambdas
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 20:33:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5Te/7XAnvK7RcDA@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu23kw9x.fsf@web.de>

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On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 06:23:38PM +0100, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My new question for today is:
> 
> What's the result of the following expression - and why?  Or maybe it is
> invalid?
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (let* ((x 'l)
>          (f (lambda () x))
>          (x 'd))
>     (funcall f))
> #+end_src

I had to look that up in the elisp manual, and I must admit
I didn't find it very clear, but ultimately it says what will
happen.

Scheme docs are typically clearer, by explaining (let* ...) in
terms of nested (let ...). Perhaps that should go into the
Elisp manual, what do people think?

Cheers
-- 
t

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-10 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-10 17:23 Another question about lambdas Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 19:33 ` tomas [this message]
2022-12-10 20:29   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 20:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-12  1:50   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-18 11:52     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-19 13:23       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 21:58 ` Arash Esbati
2022-12-11  0:00   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-11  0:09     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-11  7:02     ` tomas
2022-12-12  1:56       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-12  5:24         ` tomas
2022-12-12  6:22           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-18 11:51             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-19 13:24               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-19 13:38               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-01-30 17:44                 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-03  0:20                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-02-25  7:31                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-27  8:28                       ` tomas
2023-01-18 11:47           ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-18 11:33         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-01-19 13:32           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-13 11:26     ` Arash Esbati
2022-12-14  2:22       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-11  0:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-11  0:38   ` Michael Heerdegen

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