In message <78180b4c-68b2-4a0c-8594-50fb1ea2f...@c19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Michele Simionato wrote:
> The crux is in the behavior of the for loop: > in Python there is a single scope and the loop variable is > *mutated* at each iteration, whereas in Scheme (or Haskell or any > other functional language) a new scope is generated at each > iteration and there is actually a new loop variable at each iteration: > no mutation is involved. I think it's a bad design decision to have the loop index be a variable that can be assigned to in the loop. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
