Re: [Proposal] _LOCAL was: Re: how to call a local function by its name?

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Python has it.
>>>>
>>>> Python also has global-by-default. Your point?
>>>>
>>>> /s/ Adam
>>>
>>> Erf. LOCAL by default.
>>>
>>> /s/ Adam
>>>
>>
>> Python has a lot of nice things, some of which I miss in Lua, but if
>> Lua had all those things, it would no longer be Lua; it'd be Python.
>> (Also Lua has a lot less magic, which I appreciate!)
>
> Local-by-default is not one of those nice things.
>
> And I say this as someone who likes Python.
>
> /s/ Adam
>

I do find it makes it a bit less obvious what an object's scope is.

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