On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 00:55, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:25:53PM +1100, skaller wrote:
> > Functions can be nested in Python 2.2, and they're lexically
> > scoped. You can even do this:
> 
> I wouldn't call it conventional lexical scoping considering that the
> following is an error:
> 
> x = 1
> def f():
>     x += 1
>     return x
> 
> I very much prefer having explicit let (and let rec) constructs like in
> OCaml.
> 

But the problem has nothing to do with lexical scoping.
The problem here is that variables are not declared
in Python. 

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