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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys  <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C++ declaration style programming?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:40:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16398.29514.719974.994390@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16397.63705.338864.586672@shmyh.ua>

vvp@rogers.com writes:
> 
> (let* ((var1 (+ (something) 2))
>        (var2 (+ (something var1) var1))
>        (var3 (something var1 var2)))
> 
> If you need to change var3 at a later point, just give it another name:
> 
>   (let ((var3-2 (+ (something-else var3))))
>     (...
> 
> instead of set!-ting it. The problem with set! in a lexically scoped
> language is that you can change the binding of a variable defined at a
> higher level by mistake:

I know about all this. The example was a little contrived. The things
I have in mind are statements which currently return SCM_UNSPECIFIED.

I think it looks stupid to do

  (let* ((a (something))
	 (unused (display a))
	 (b (something-else a))
	 ..
	 )

which introduces a variable unused, and puts emphasis on the
declaration, not on the main action of the statements.

-- 

 Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen@xs4all.nl   |   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen 



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 22:17 C++ declaration style programming? Han-Wen Nienhuys
2004-01-21  3:58 ` Viktor Pavlenko
2004-01-21 12:40   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2004-01-21  4:57 ` Issac Trotts
2004-01-21  5:00 ` Stephen Compall
2004-01-21 12:45   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2004-01-21  5:03 ` Lynn Winebarger
2004-01-21 21:46 ` Keith Wright
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-21 14:22 Viktor Pavlenko
2004-01-21 14:26 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2004-01-21 15:41 Viktor Pavlenko
2004-01-21 16:06 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-22  2:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-22  4:28   ` Viktor Pavlenko

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