Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> added the comment: > Does it makes sense to have the presence of "global a" in g, block all > possibility for h, to access it's grand parent's a ?
>From the perspective of ML-style languages with pure lexical scoping, no, it >does not make sense. But Python started with C-like simple name spaces, then nested functions and 'nonlocal' were added. I think the answer (as usual) is that people may rely on the established convention and that it is no problem in practice. ---------- nosy: +skrah _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32361> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
