On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:52 AM Roel Schroeven <r...@roelschroeven.net> wrote:
> Op 26/02/2023 om 6:53 schreef Hen Hanna: > > > There are some similarities between Python and Lisp-family > > > languages, but really Python is its own thing. > > > > > > Scope (and extent ?) of variables is one reminder that Python is > not Lisp > > > > for i in range(5): print( i ) > > ......... > > print( i ) > > > > ideally, after the FOR loop is done, the (local) var i should also > disappear. > > (this almost caused a bug for me) > I wouldn't say "i *should* also disappear". There is no big book of > programming language design with rules like that that all languages have > to follow. Different languages have different behavior. In some > languages, for/if/while statements introduce a new scope, in other > languages they don't. In Python, they don't. I won't say one is better > than the other; they're just different. > > -- > > I'm not sure, but I think I remember this was actually a bug in the interpreter, and presumably they didn't fix it because they didn't want to break backward compatibility? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
