Re: Understanding the "let" construct and the setting of variables

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Dec 17 2020, steve-humphreys@gmx.com wrote:
> I do not want the function to return the "message" (tah was for testing), but 
> the
> value of tim_out.  How can one return a local variable?

`let` returns the return value of its last body form. So simply use your
variable as the last body form. :-)

```
(let ((some-var (calculate-some-value)))
  (do-some-more-stuff-with some-var)
  some-var)
```

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Joost Kremers
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