"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not only that way in python, but in java too. So it seems that there is > a fundamental principle behind it: In a language that allows sideeffects, > these will actually happen.
Can you even have nested functions in Java? Algol-60 did things the way you'd expect, i.e. you can modify the outer variable from the inner scope. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list