Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[David Eppstein]

In article <m37k36sa1b.fsf at jcooper02.sagepub.com>,
 Jock Cooper <jockc at mail.com> wrote:

> Ok so in Python a function can DEF another function in its body.  I assume
> this can be returned to the caller.  When you have a nested DEF like that,
> is the nested function's name globally visible? 

Not by default, but it can be made to be via an appropriate "global" 
declaration.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science