[Python-ideas] Statement local functions and classes (aka PEP 3150 is dead, say 'Hi!' to PEP 403)

[Greg Ewing]

Carl M. Johnson wrote:

> That's more-or-less my point. The ability to write arbitrary code with given
> will create a lot of arguments about style. One person will use it in one place
> but not another, then someone will say, hey, let's make it more consistent, but
> then that's going too far… and it becomes an attractive nuisance for pointless
> rewrites.

But again, is this really any different from what we already
have? There are countless ways in which any given piece of
code could be rewritten according to someone's personal
tastes, yet somehow we manage to avoid the massive code
churn that this would seem to imply.

-- 
Greg