[Python-Dev] Re: LOAD_NAME & classes (original) (raw)

Fran�ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
23 Apr 2002 13:27:59 -0400

[Guido van Rossum]

But Python is unique in that it doesn't require declarations. (I've got to admit that the Perl example saddened me. But then in Perl, local variables are a recent invention. :-)

Guido, I miss the point of the second sentence. Why were you saddened? Don't you prefer not having to declare locals, as Python does now?

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