mutual-recursion
Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
Example: (DEFUNS (evenlp (x) (if (consp x) (oddlp (cdr x)) t)) (oddlp (x) (if (consp x) (evenlp (cdr x)) nil)))is equivalent toGeneral Form: (DEFUNS defuns-tuple1 ... defuns-tuplen)
(MUTUAL-RECURSION (DEFUN . defuns-tuple1) ... (DEFUN . defuns-tuplen))In fact,
defuns
is the more primitive of the two and
mutual-recursion
is just a macro that expands to a call of defun
after stripping off the defun
at the car
of each argument to
mutual-recursion
. We provide and use mutual-recursion
rather than
defuns
because by leaving the defun
s in place, mutual-recursion
forms can be processed by the Emacs tags
program.
See mutual-recursion.