Re: Defining functions within functions?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-05-23, at 07:34, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a long function with quite a few (even nested) lambdas inside.
>> I decided to refactor it so that it becomes more readable.  Since I use
>> lexical scoping, simply changing the lambdas into defuns defined
>> elsewhere won't work.
>>
>> In Scheme, one would probably use define inside another define.  Is it
>> a good idea to use a (cl-)defun within a defun in Elisp to obtain
>> a closure in this situation?  If not, what is a better way?
>
> Sounds like a job for cl-labels!

Or cl-flet.  But thanks anyway (and I learned about cl-flet when reading
about cl-labels!).

> Eric

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University