Hello,
Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes:
> Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> I'm surprised that elisp doesn't provide any mechanism for local
>> anonymous functions.
>
> (let ((my-local-func (lambda (a) (message a))))
> (funcall my-local-func "Hello!"))
>
> is fine.
>
> It's just for recursive local function -- letrec provides it now,
> but apparently cl-labels was needed for that before.
You can have recursive local functions:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(let* (len ; For byte compiler.
(len (lambda (l) (if (not l) 0
(1+ (funcall len (cdr l)))))))
(funcall len '(1 2 3)))
#+end_src
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
