[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Talin wrote:

> I also think that it won't be a complete disaster if we do nothing at 
> all - there *are* existing ways to deal with this problem; there are 
> even some which aren't hackish and non-obvious. For example, its easy 
> enough to create an object which acts as an artificial scope:
> 
>     def x():
>        scope = object()
>        scope.x = 1
>        def y():
>           scope.x = 2
> 
> To my mind, the above code looks about as elegant and efficient as most 
> of the proposals put forward so far, and it already works.
> 
> How much are we really saving here by building this feature into the 
> language?

I don't think anyone commented on my "mutable" post, but as I mentioned 
in that post, if you look at the use cases for this, what most use cases 
really need is *mutation*, not *rebinding*.

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