Nested scopes: why is it weird?

[Chris Barker]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> I think it should similarly reqiure you to be explicit
> when you want to shadow one. Or it could simply disallow the shadowing
> -- it isn't very useful anyhow. Just call the inner a "inner_a".

I think this would be a nightmare for code maintainance and simple
syntax. How often do you use a simple variable name like "i" for an
index? would you really want to use i in one scope, and then inner_i in
the next, and then inner_inner_i?

And as soon as you re-arranged your code a little, you would have to
re-name a bunch of stuff. I like the current scheme just fine.

-Chris


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