[Python-Dev] Re: anonymous blocks vs scope-collapse

[Greg Ewing]

I don't think this proposal has any chance as long as
it's dynamically scoped.

It mightn't be so bad if it were lexically scoped,
i.e. a special way of defining a function so that
it shares the lexically enclosing scope. This
would be implementable, since the compiler has
all the necessary information about both scopes
available.

Although it might be better to have some sort of
"outer" declaration for rebinding in the enclosing
scope, instead of doing it on a whole-function basis.

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