Why read-only nested scopes?

Martin v. Löwis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 5 10:45:32 EDT 2002


"Jay O'Connor" <joconnor at cybermesa.com> writes:

> Why not simply disallow the using of a name already defined in an
> enclosing scope? Similar to Smalltalk?

That might break compatibility with existing code.

Regards,
Martin



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