Re: FLET vs LABELS

From: Alex Mizrahi (udodenko_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:24:46 +0200

(message (Hello 'David)
(you :wrote :on '(14 Jan 2005 17:21:50 -0500))
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 DS> FLET and LABELS are both special operators. They both do the same
 DS> thing except that, "labels is equivalent to flet except that the scope
 DS> of the defined function names for labels encompasses the function
 DS> definitions themselves as well as the body."

 DS> So why would FLET be used in preference to LABELS?

you cannot do stuff like

(flet ((+ (x y) (print (+ x y)))) (+ 3 4))

with labels.
there are situations when you really need to access outer function
definition, however i don't think they are very frequent.

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