it seems like a few weeks ago... but actually it was more like 30 years ago that i was programming in C, and

[Roel Schroeven]

Op 26/02/2023 om 6:53 schreef Hen Hanna:
> > There are some similarities between Python and Lisp-family 
> > languages, but really Python is its own thing. 
>
>
>     Scope (and extent ?) of   variables is one reminder that  Python is not Lisp
>
> 　　　　　for    i     in      range(5):　　    print( i )
>                       .........
> 　　　　　print( i )
>
> ideally, after the FOR loop is done,  the (local) var  i should also disappear.
> (this almost caused a bug for me)
I wouldn't say "i *should* also disappear". There is no big book of 
programming language design with rules like that that all languages have 
to follow. Different languages have different behavior. In some 
languages, for/if/while statements introduce a new scope, in other 
languages they don't. In Python, they don't. I won't say one is better 
than the other; they're just different.

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