Why we will use obj$func() often

[Greg Ewing]

Mark Hahn wrote:
> You cannot.  Yes it literally means the immediately surrounding function.
> In your example, I can't think of any scheme we've discussed that accesses x
> in function f.  Python surely cannot.

Python can't write to it, but at least it can read it.
Prothon apparently can't even read it.

 > As always, I'm open to suggestions...

I can't think of any way to fix this that preserves the
single-pass requirement, short of introducing some kind
of declaration in the scope where the variable is defined.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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