Re: Is it necessary to reset or clear the global variables ?

[Fren Zeee]

On Nov 26, 5:39 pm, Fren Zeee <frenz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I am trying to modify or improve an existing lisp function written by
> myself a few years ago. I have observed that when I run it on the test
> data after some modification, it appears to run because the global
> variables have old value and some regular expression or result did not
> produce a nil or did produce a nil which resulted in the failure of
> the function to die or crash during execution.
>
> A standard method is to reset all global variables.
>
> As a newbie, I ask you to provide me with advice on what is a good
> practice.
>
> Franz Xe
>
> P.S. Is the word persistence an accurate term to describe this
> disease ?

Basically, I discovered that I was being spoofed by previous values
when I tried to break the function execution and it did not break,
when I fed it the wrong data.