[Python-ideas] Tweaking closures and lexical scoping to include the function being defined

[Paul Moore]

On 28 September 2011 12:21, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> There was a time when Lisps
>> were described as Lisp-1 or Lisp-2 depending on their position on
>> scope.
>
> Actually that distinction is whether there is a separate
> namespace for functions or not, see
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1_vs._Lisp-2#The_function_namespace

Pah. Fading memory. Dynamic vs lexical scoping was in there somewhere,
though, just not by the names I thought :-)
Paul