inner classes in python as inner classes in Java

[Carlo v. Dango]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:20:44 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:



>> __setattr__ will have no changes of knowing when to create the field or
>> look it up in the outer scope... this suxx man... I never understood the
>> smart thing about that feature in python.. anyone care to enlighten me?
>
> If you can't see that it's simpler to let
>
>    target = value
>
> have the same semantics whether target was already bound to something
> or not, it's hard to see what will convince you.

I can't... mispelling occours and leed to stupid bugs rather than compile 
errors which are simple to check. Even smalltalk has this feature..



> its still hard to say what benefits you'll be getting, of course, but 
> there
> may be some cunning plan behind it all.

aaaah come on :) you really cannot see the nice things of having a scope 
for inner class instances?? It's like inner method.. atleast they share 
scope with their outer method... if it didn't it would render inner 
methods almost useless..

class A(object):
	def foo(self):
		i = 3
		def bar():
			print i

		bar()





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