On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jan Kuiken <jan.kui...@quicknet.nl> wrote: > On 8/23/12 06:11 , Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>> 2) Related to the above, you can infinitely nest scopes. There's nothing >>> wrong with having six variables called 'q'; you always use the innermost >>> one. Yes, this can hurt readability >> >> >> Well, there you go. There *is* something wrong with having six variables >> called 'q'. > > > Sometimes you don't want only six variables called 'q' but a hundred > of them :-) > > def fac(q): > if q < 1 : > return 1 > else: > return q * fac(q-1) > > print(fac(100))
That's only one variable called 'q', instantiated 100 times simultaneously. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
