>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes: TW> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:29:36PM -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote: >> Let's not waffle. If nested scopes are worth doing, they're >> worth breaking code. TW> I'm sorry, but that's bull -- I mean, I disagree TW> completely. Nested scopes *are* a nice feature, but if we can't TW> do them without breaking code in weird ways, we shouldn't, or at TW> least *not yet*. I am still uneasy by the restrictions seemingly TW> created just to facilitate the implementation issues of nested TW> scopes, but I could live with them if they had been generating TW> warnings at least one release, preferably more. A note of clarification seems important here: The restrictions are not being introduced to simplify the implementation. They're being introduced because there is no sensible meaning for code that uses import * and nested scopes with free variables. There are two possible meanings, each plausible and neither satisfying. Jeremy
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