July 1, 2006
1:14 p.m.
Andrew Koenig wrote:
Incidentally, I think that lexical scoping would also deal with the problem that people often encounter in which they have to write things like "lambda x=x:" where one would think "lambda x:" would suffice.
This is another red herring. Python's problem here is not because its scoping isn't lexical (it is). It's because Scheme implicitly introduces new scopes in various places where the equivalent Python constructs don't. -- Greg