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

[jayessay]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmail.com> writes:

> Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > In Common Lisp we would have:
> > 
> >     (defvar *x*) ;; makes it special
> >     (setf *x* 1)
> >     (print *x*) ;;-> 1
> >     (let ((*x* 2))
> >        (print *x*)) ;; -> 2
> >     (print *x*) ;; -> 1
> 
> You seem to think that conflating special variable binding and lexical
> variable binding is a feature and not a bug. What's your rationale?

And the particularly ugly, crappy, half baked python emulation is what?
A feature?  Right.


/Jon

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