Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

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From: José A. Romero L.
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:21

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On 1 Jan, 23:50, girosenth <girose...@india.com> 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,
--
José A. Romero L.
escherdragon at gmail
"We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
(Quarry worker's creed)

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