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From: "José A. Romero L." <escherdragon@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:21:42 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0759673-84c0-437f-89ce-c0bf991cfbd1@r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 58e36af6-01b2-4e3c-ad92-4ab674c4831d@e20g2000vbn.googlegroups.com

On 1 Jan, 23:50, girosenth <girose...@india.com> wrote:
(...)
> of computation, I am faced with how to break it into parts due to
> coupling in its parts. I was doing it inside let* to avoid setq
> (fair ?) but I have a function that must return a number or a string
(...)

Can't you simply use setq inside let?:

    (setq blah 1)
    (let ((blah))
      (setq blah 2)  ;; <-- This is not blah! ;)
      (message "blah is %s" blah))

Cheers,
--
José A. Romero L.
escherdragon at gmail
"We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
(Quarry worker's creed)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-03 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-01  7:04 How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? girosenth
2011-01-01 11:39 ` Elena
2011-01-01 14:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-01 16:08   ` Nathan
2011-01-01 18:05     ` Jan Burse
2011-01-01 23:56     ` The Quiet Center
2011-01-02  1:10       ` Jan Burse
2011-01-02  3:45       ` LanX
2011-01-02  4:04         ` LanX
2011-01-02  5:36           ` Nathan
2011-01-02  6:46             ` Paul Rubin
2011-01-02 15:01               ` LanX
2011-01-02 15:14                 ` Jerome Baum
2011-01-02 21:21                 ` Paul Rubin
2011-01-02  7:14             ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-02  6:59       ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-03 15:22         ` LanX
2011-01-02 14:07       ` Frank GOENNINGER
2011-01-07  9:41       ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-09 10:41         ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevelfunctional " WJ
2011-01-03 10:29     ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional " Didier Verna
2011-01-03 13:05       ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04  4:49         ` rusi
2011-01-04  5:39           ` D Herring
2011-01-04  8:02             ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04  9:09               ` Nicolas Neuss
2011-01-04 10:00               ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04 12:21                 ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04 12:23                   ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04 13:33                     ` Tim Harig
2011-01-04 12:41                   ` Tamas K Papp
2011-01-04 23:32                 ` Tim X
2011-01-05  1:35                   ` [OT] LISP community advocacy [was Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?] Tim Harig
2011-01-05  9:52                   ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-04  6:24           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-04 15:43             ` Raffael Cavallaro
2011-01-04 10:18         ` Didier Verna
2011-01-01 22:50   ` girosenth
2011-01-02 21:11     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-03 16:21     ` José A. Romero L. [this message]
2011-01-03 18:03     ` jacko
2011-01-02 23:45   ` Chip Eastham
2011-01-01 18:27 ` How to improve the readability of Steve Revilak
2011-01-01 19:22 ` How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? prad
2011-01-01 23:56 ` Pascal Costanza
2011-01-02  5:39   ` D Herring
2011-01-02 14:17     ` Frank GOENNINGER
2011-01-02 14:53       ` Jerome Baum
2011-01-02 14:58         ` LanX
2011-01-02 17:55     ` Bernd Paysan
2011-01-03 18:07   ` jacko
2011-01-02 12:59 ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-02 19:14   ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-03  5:20     ` Elizabeth D Rather
2011-01-03 10:48     ` MarkWills
2011-01-03 15:13       ` LanX
2011-01-03 18:20     ` jacko
2011-01-03 18:22     ` jacko
2011-01-03 10:18 ` Didier Verna
2011-01-04  6:47 ` pineapple
2011-01-04 14:14   ` P.M.Lawrence
2011-01-05 14:58 ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 16:21   ` Andrew Haley
2011-01-05 21:29     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-06  8:57       ` Jonathan Groll
2011-01-07  5:36     ` Xah Lee
2011-01-07 13:28       ` Andrew Haley
2011-01-07 16:19         ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 17:59   ` Elena
2011-01-05 20:13     ` Xah Lee
2011-01-05 21:42     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-06 13:38       ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-06 19:20         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-07  0:09           ` w_a_x_man
2011-01-07 12:04           ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-06 22:59   ` Xah Lee
2011-01-07 11:47     ` Jan Burse
2011-01-21 10:03       ` rupertlssmith
2011-01-21 16:08         ` Jan Burse
2011-01-21 21:43           ` D. J. Penton
2011-01-18 22:55 ` m_l_g3
2011-01-19 13:45   ` Doug Hoffman
2011-01-21 16:15   ` Jan Burse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-02 16:50 Drew Adams

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