From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_A=2E_Romero_L=2E?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <80ceeca0-1d32-47d1-ba96-feb4d9729c3a@v17g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <87pqsgk8v9.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <58e36af6-01b2-4e3c-ad92-4ab674c4831d@e20g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294073256 8079 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 16:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:47:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 17:47:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZnZA-0006Px-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:47:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZnZ1-0002NE-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:47:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional, comp.lang.lisp, gnu.emacs.help, comp.lang.forth, comp.lang.prolog Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.17.133.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1294071703 8541 127.0.0.1 (3 Jan 2011 16:21:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.17.133.2; posting-account=mkEKGAoAAACAV2vhv5r9WHXWqsdL_niD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101107 Firefox/3.6.12 (Swiftfox),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.lang.functional:69092 comp.lang.lisp:297182 gnu.emacs.help:183909 comp.lang.forth:160285 comp.lang.prolog:44024 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78116 Archived-At: On 1 Jan, 23:50, girosenth 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, -- Jos=E9 A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals." (Quarry worker's creed)