Some language proposals.

[Michael Hudson]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:

> "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> 
> > Nested functions are much rarer than unnested.  Needing to rebind an
> > outer local, rather than merely read or mutate, is rarer still.
> 
> Chicken and Egg.
> 
> Sapir-Whorf.

Possibly.  Also see Paul's response.

> I sumbit to you that read-only closures are rare in Python because
> they are a recent addition to the language.

Actually, I think uses of nested scopes are fairly common -- in test
suites!  It was writing test cases that motivated us to implement them
for PyPy...

Cheers,
mwh

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