On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:25:19 +0200, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> - or so it feels like to the person who's experiencing it. >> >> Have you ever been that person, or come across such a situation? > > Many times. The hard thing about trying to provide use cases for this > is that of course you can always find another way to write it. It's > just that sometimes the nested function is a perfect solution at point > in time A, and then at point in time B, a change in the program requires > that the nested function mutate a bit of state, resulting in either a > rewrite to do it the "right" way, or hacking mutable objects. Well, not an actual example, but close enough. Leaving the rest to Guido then. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
