Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Laurent Pointal wrote: > >> And so the solution to add "global foo" before using it. > > Didn't you read his final question? > > | All of a sudden, tiny() can see the global variable "foo". Very > | confusing! Why is it that tiny() sometimes can, and sometimes > | can't, see the global variable "foo"? > > I have no explanation for this, but I'm interested in one, too. > It doesn't happen "all of a sudden", it happens when the assignment to foo is removed from the function definition. The interpreter therefore no longer regards foo as a local variable.
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