nested scopes

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.981230290.31442.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at home.com> writes
>[Robin Becker]
>> as I suspected this is about optimality;
>
>Since the local vrbl optimization happened 7 years ago, it really is too
>late to cry "foul!" on that one <wink>.  BTW, the *rules* for when a name is
>local did *not* change then; they simply got exploited; and Python actually
>got more predictable because of it (although only in obscure endcases, none
>of which I saw that weren't contrived).
>
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it's never too late to cry foul
-- 
Robin Becker