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Tue Apr 17 14:35:57 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/101970.html

Can you expand on "it has only led to trouble"?  I don't think it looses
clarity, although it does introduce variable hiding.

Mike

"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Howarth wrote:
>
> > Being lazy, I wondered if something like the following was possible in
> > Python?
>
> Hopefully not.  In every language that kind of syntax has been
> introduced, it has only led to trouble.  It saves a small amount of
> typing (and not very much) at the expense of a lack of clarity and the
> addition of ambiguity.
>
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