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

[Greg Ewing]

skip at pobox.com wrote:

> By naming the function in which the binding is to occur you avoid problems
> of someone coming along and adding or deleting functions between the
> assignment (in baz) and the target of the assignment (x in foo) but then
> forgetting to increment or decrement the counters that refer to a fixed
> number of levels above the current function.

But it doesn't do anything for the (I expect much more
common) case of factoring out something in a function body
and making it a nested function -- you'd still have to
change the form of all the references to the name in
that case.

Better not to have a scheme that uses counters or
scope names at all, I think.

--
Greg