Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> I believe that names in
> lambdas/nested-functions referring to local names in the outer scope should
> really be bound at function definition time

No, you don't want that, because it would make functions that
call each other very awkward to arrange.

> And it's also handy that the iteration variable of the for loop is
> accessible after the for loop is terminated (in fact, this specific
> behaviour is already listed among the wont-change for Py3k).

I'd just like to point out that the create-a-new-cell
behaviour that I have proposed for loop variables
*preserves* this ability!

   for new i in range(10):
     ...
   print i

will still print 9.

--
Greg
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