On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:26:33 -0500 Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > local is a teaching construct that ensures that the semantics of > > locally defined functions is 100% in sync with 'globally' defined > > functions. An experienced programmer may ignore local completely. > > I remember that when I was first learning Racket, `local` was a red > herring for me. It was in the docs so I felt it was something more I > needed to learn, but struggled for awhile to figure out what it > brought to the party. > > Maybe it's already less prominent in the docs these days (it was long > enough ago that I don't remember the prominence back then). The only > thing I could really find now was: > http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/local.html > > I wonder if something like what you wrote above, could be added there? > "Note: This is a teaching construct you won't use as an experienced > Racket programmer." > > (Not to make a mountain out of a molehill. Just want to share my > learning experience, while I still can remember it.) > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > Thanks to both of you for the explanation. It seems that using define inside a function is a specialty of Racket as in other schemes I would need to use let, let* or letrec appropriately when defining something inside a function. -- Manfred ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
