A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

[jayessay]

"Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:

> jayessay wrote:
> > "Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Ken Tilton wrote:
> > > > I was not thinking about the thread issue (of which I know little). The
> > > > big deal for Cells is the dynamic bit:
> > > >
> > > >     (let ((*dependent* me))
> > > >          (funcall (rule me) me))
> > > >
> > > > Then if a rule forces another cell to recalculate itself, *dependent*
> > > > gets rebound and (the fun part) reverts back to the original dependent
> > > > as soon as the scope of the let is exited.
> > >
> > > Python 2.5 has a "with" statement (yes, the name is Lispish on purpose)
> > > that could be used to implement this. See
> > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343
> >
> > You are mistaken.  In particular, VAR doesn't have dynamic scope.
> >
> 
> I said "it could be used to implement this", and since in a previous
> post on mine in this
> same thread I have shown how to implement thread local variables in
> Python I figured
> out people would be able to do the exercise for themselves.

I was saying that you are mistaken in that pep-0343 could be used to
implement dynamically scoped variables.  That stands.


/Jon

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