In article <pan.2009.04.20.08.31...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au>, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: >On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:44:59 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:18:23 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> In message <gsg2iv$g5...@panix3.panix.com>, Aahz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What kind of OO language allows you to do this: >>>>> >>>>> def square(x): >>>>> return x*x >>>>> >>>>> for i in range(10): >>>>> print square(x) >>>> >>>> Take out the "OO" qualifier, and the answer is still "none": >>>> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module> >>>> NameError: name 'x' is not defined >>> >>> I can't replicate that error. Did you forget to initialize x before >>> running the code snippet? >> >> The code as posted had a typo: 'x' instead of the instended 'i'. > >Well duh, that's obvious :) > >It's such an obvious typo that I wonder what point Lawrence thought he >was making to show that it wouldn't run as given.
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