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

[inhahe]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:52 AM Roel Schroeven <roel at roelschroeven.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
>
>
I'm not sure, but I think I remember this was actually a bug in the
interpreter, and presumably they didn't fix it because they didn't want to
break backward compatibility?