[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?) (original) (raw)

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Thu Jul 6 17:05:42 CEST 2006 

jan-python> So.. are we only thinking about implementing this outer
jan-python> scope assignment because there's lots of talk about it on
jan-python> the list, ...

:-)

jan-python> ... or are there actually use cases that would become
jan-python> clearer if assigning to an outer scope variable was allowed?

I think full lexical scoping will only be of use to people who use nested scopes heavily. The more typical user will be happy to just refer to values in outser scopes without modifying them and rely on classes to save changed state across calls. I think it's almost a YAGNI, but I'm sure others will disagree.

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