kj wrote:
I think I understand the answers well enough. What I *really*
don't understand is why this particular "feature" of Python (i.e.
that functions defined within a class statement are forbidden from
"seeing" other identifiers defined within the class statement) is
generally considered to be perfectly OK. IMO it's a bizarre,
inexplicable blindspot (which, among other things, gives rise to
a certain worry about what other similar craziness lurks under
Python's image of rationality). I have never seen even a half-hearted
justification, from a language design point of view, for why this
particular "feature" is worth having. Maybe some day the BDFL will
deign to give one.
kynn
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
means. :)
Keep studying. Listen. Learn how it *is*. Understanding may come later.
~Ethan~
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