Python scoping

[Alex Martelli]

"Hartmann Schaffer" <hs at paradise.nirvananet> wrote in message
news:8tda45$626$1 at paradise.nirvananet...
> In article <gqeivsspqj64idsf6rr6dgbekif5t9osfo at 4ax.com>,
> Steve Horne  <sh at ttsoftware.co.uk> wrote:
> >On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:28:15 +0200, "Alex Martelli"
> ><aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I recall that in PL/I you may, if you wish, recall the label in
> >>the END clause (or was it Ada...?  darn -- big languages, long
> >>ago...):
>
> couldn't that be used for 'multiple closure' (i.e. it also close all
> blocks that started within foo that weren't terminated yet)>

Could be, if you wanted to design a language that way, but
that seems error-prone, while the optional redundancy of
specifying what it is that you think are closing helps to have
fewer error (perhaps) and better diagnostics of block
closing errors (certainly).


Alex