Nested scopes: why is it weird?

[Cliff Wells]

On Friday 07 September 2001 14:45, Scott Long wrote:

>
> It looks like the real reason for nested scopes was to get rid of the
> lambda hack (passing variables through default arguments). Perhaps
> nested scopes are over-general, and should ONLY apply to lambda
> expressions? That's really the only place they are necessary...
>

You're probably correct about the lambda hack.  I detested that and nested 
scopes make it much cleaner.   As far as limiting nested scopes to lambda 
functions, that doesn't seem too unreasonable.

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