SB le_machin2000 at yahoo.fr
Fri Oct 31 03:23:25 EST 2003

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This post is interesting, and raise an issue (unfortunately already
known) about scopes in Python. But bad faiths occurs when the poster
forget that :

1) variable capture is not an error, it can be linked with some topics
of computer science in one hand, and well known and considered useful
programming construction in the other hand (say, genuine exceptions).
Old timer's LISP used dynamic contexts, and has not been reported as
causing brain damage (AFAIK).

2) Now, a little bad faith from my own... Could you imagine the number
of people suffering this kind of brain damage (caused by the heavy use
of monads), which goes around explaining to people that imperative
programming is useless, and that only them knows the truth ??? You
seem to be part of them...

SB.

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