Tim Peters wrote:
(ABC had no lexical scoping either - nor, if I recall correctly, even textual nesting of its flavor of functions).
If Python hadn't allowed textual nesting either, folks might have been content to leave it that way. But having textual nesting without lexical scoping was just weird and confusing! > A great many functions are in fact
... functions ;-) That is, they compute a result from the arguments passed to them. They don't need more than that,
Yes, but they often make use of other functions to do that, and not being able to call other local functions in the same scope seemed like a perverse restriction. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
