[Python-Dev] Lexical scoping in Python 3k (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 3 03:11:43 CEST 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

If the only code that benefits from such changes are "very simple", then I think that says something about its necessity.

The point is that they're only "very simple" if you can write them using access to an outer scope. Without that ability, they become less simple, less efficient, more convoluted, harder to follow, etc.

Also I don't buy the argument that something has to be useful for big, complicated things in order to be worth having in the language.

-- Greg

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