Jan. 19, 2016
11:29 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
I think it's reasonable to divert this discussion to "value capture". Not sure if that's the usual terminology, but the idea should be that a reference to the value is captured, rather than (as Python normally does with closures) a reference to the variable (implemented as something called a "cell").
+1. This would permit deprecation of the "def blah(...., len=len):" optimization - all you need to do is set a value capture on the name "len". ChrisA