[Python-Dev] LOAD_NAME & classes

[Tim Peters]

[Guido]
> ...
> No; apart from you, most people were happy with the rule "nested
> functions don't work".

Most, yes, but most people are happy with UnboundLocalError too.  The
business about nested functions not being able to see each other was a FAQ
regardless, and Aaron Watters wrote the FAQ Wizard blurb about it.  This FAQ
entry was distinct from the FAQ entry about nested functions not being able
to see the locals in enclosing functions, despite that they were really the
same issue, because people who understood the latter just didn't see the
connection to the former without additional words.

So the answer to my original question:

    (perhaps you've forgotten how many times you had to explain that one,
    and how difficult it was to get across?).

is either "yes", or "no, but I eventually left such explaining to others,
and so have nothing to forget" <wink>.