Re: Defining functions within functions?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a long function with quite a few (even nested) lambdas inside.
> I decided to refactor it so that it becomes more readable.  Since I use
> lexical scoping, simply changing the lambdas into defuns defined
> elsewhere won't work.
>
> In Scheme, one would probably use define inside another define.  Is it
> a good idea to use a (cl-)defun within a defun in Elisp to obtain
> a closure in this situation?  If not, what is a better way?

Sounds like a job for cl-labels!

Eric