Why functional Python matters

Wed Apr 16 02:13:41 EDT 2003

In article <b7iigt$1d3jt$1 at ID-169208.news.dfncis.de>,
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote:
> There isn't any widely understood name for what Python used
> to do, because no other language has ever been quirky
> enough to do it that way. It was lexical, but with only
> three levels visible at any one time.

Three? I thought it was two! Locals, globals, and...?

Dave