[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 07:04:05 CET 2006


Terry Reedy wrote:

There were perhaps 10 different proposals, including, I believe, 'outer'. Guido rejected them all as having costs greater than the benefits.

As far as I remember, Guido wasn't particularly opposed to the idea, but the discussion fizzled out after having failed to reach a consensus on an obviously right way to go about it.

Greg



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