Oct. 24, 2003
4:05 p.m.
well, no, it's probably that I expect rebindable closed-over vars to be introduced but some kind of structured construct instead of the usual Python freeform.
Why does rebindability make a difference here? Local vars are already visible in inner scopes, and if they are mutable, they are already being modified from inner scopes (just not rebound, but to most programmers that's an annoying detail). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)