Re: Scope Question

dstein64 <DStein64@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I forgot to mention that I would like the variable to reset itself on
each call to the function (but not on the recursive calls. So in your
example, I would like count to be reset to 0 each time counter is
called from the program. Although there is no recursion in that
example, I would not like count to be reset each time counter is
called recursively by counter.

Is there a problem with passing count back as an argument? If you
don't want to expose count you can just wrap up the recursive part in
labels:

(defun print-10-times (str)
(labels ((recursive-part (times-left)
(when (> times-left 0)
(print str)
(recursive-part (- times-left 1)))))
(recursive-part 10)))

-Nat
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