What can you do in LISP that you can't do in Python

[Greg Ewing]

It occurs to me that there is one way in
which an out-of-line def'ed function is *not*
equivalent to a true inline code block:

With nested scopes as they're currently done,
there's no way to assign to a variable in an
outer non-global scope. So, for example,

  sum = 0
  def add_value(node):
    sum = sum + node.value
  for_each_node_of(my_tree, add_value)

won't work!

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,	  
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