[Python-ideas] For-loop variable scope: simultaneous possession and ingestion of cake

[Terry Reedy]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Neil Toronto wrote:
> 
>> Python could close over the values rather than a cell. That's *almost 
>> always* what people really care about anyway! It'd break almost no code.
> 
> No, it would break huge amounts of code. Consider

Something we seem to agree on ...
> 
>   def f():
>     g()
> 
>   def g():
>     print "Gee"
> 
> Would you really like to get a NameError or
> UnboundLocalError on g here?

I believe all (apparently) recursive functions would have the same problem.