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Re: Return


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Return
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:44:26 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > There are lots of reasons for doing a defun inside of a function.
>> Give me examples and I'll tell you if I consider them as
>> valuable enough.
> Anything you would use `require' for inside a function.  Betcha find a
> dozen or more instances of require-in-a-function in Gnus alone.

Irrelevant: the defuns in the loaded file are defined at the top-level
even if the require is called from within a function.  We're calling
about "static top-level", not "top of the recursion stack".


        Stefan



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