RE: Defining functions within functions?

[Drew Adams]

> And I wanted to use the former variant, but it struck me as not very
> elegant.  As for the latter, I'm not sure I understand it exactly, but
> I'll give it some thought.
> 
> For now, I decided to go with lambdas, but also to sprinkle the code
> with comments.  Old-fashioned, but should do the jon in my case.

A suggestion: Post a concrete example of what you need, and
see what concrete suggestions you get.

Typically, this stuff is not complicated.  The first thing
to do, IMO, is to determine whether you really need/want to
do something special/complicated.  Why do you think you want
a nested defun or other form of local function definition?