On 4/6/07, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I sometimes miss, which is common in some other languages (c++), > is idea of block scope. It would be useful to have variables that did not > outlive their block, primarily to avoid name clashes. This also leads to > more readable code. I wonder if this has been discussed? >
Block scope as a way to prevent name clashes is usually solved by refactoring (in C++, too) - if you can't disambiguate locals in a function it's usually a sign that your function does to much and needs to be broken up. Block scope as a way to control object lifetimes (automatic variables, or RAII) is addressed (in 2.5) by context managers or (pre-2.5) try/finally blocks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
