[Paul Rubin] > Huh? [1,2,[3,4,5],[6,[[[[7]],8]]]] is a perfectly valid Python list.
You're claiming not to know any relevant difference between Python lists and Lisp lists? Heh. > And you can break out of a containing loop from a nested loop > with try/raise. Heh heh. Yes, you can. I've never seen a real Python program that did, but there's nothing to stop you. What did you think the "direct" in "direct way" might have been intended to mean? > More troublesome is not being able to see a variable in a > containing scope from a nested scope, unless the containing > scope is the global one. Why bother debating lexical scope for > years before deciding to add it, only to stop halfway? I'd call it 80% of the way, but suit yourself. The debates are all easily found, if you really want to know. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list